Greetings from beautiful downtown Grand Lake Stream.  It is truly fantastic here but the heat and the bugs have been but a small inconvenience.  A dip in the lake has become a welcome daily ritual.   Alesa & Laura have finished reorganizing the house.  Today I am at the studio in Calais awaiting a machine delivery for which I have been drafted as manual labor, a welcome diversion and some tiny payback for our hosts.   We helped set up for the Downeast Lake Land Trust (downeastlake.org if you are interested in a good cause) annual picnic and meeting on the lakeshore yesterday.   The Schaefers had additional houseguests this weekend which was a lot of fun and we even had fresh lobster again on Friday night.  Can't say enough about their hospitality.  Alesa & Laura are in Bangor today to pick up a nephew (a long story with a happy ending) and to shop (surprise).   Where's that machine?  Steve and I are ready to go play!