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Labor Day Get-Together and Sailing

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Sixteen people, including five children, stand on grass in front of trees and a house.

Labor Day with the whole crowd, and the annual attempt at a group photo on the lawn. Fourteen adults, five babies, and no version where everyone is looking the same direction at once — one of the little ones started crying halfway through, the toddler in the white top kept wandering out of the row, and everybody else was laughing too hard to hold still. The moms sat down in the grass afterward with the babies in their laps, which went about as well as you'd expect with five kids under two lined up on a lawn.

Later we went out sailing. Clear sky, good breeze, dunes off in the distance behind us. The captain kept a coil of line in his hands most of the time and never lost his grin. Grandma rode in the back with her visor on, and the toddler ended up on a lap in the cockpit with a sippy cup, more interested in that than in the water. There were beers open in the cockpit before we'd been out very long.

A good end to the summer, more or less — sunburns and grass stains and one deflated dinghy strapped over the stern.

Sixteen people, including five children, pose on a grassy lawn with trees and a house in the background.Fifteen people, including five children, pose outdoors on green grass in front of trees and a house.Six adults and five children pose on a sunny green lawn with trees and a house in the background.Eleven people, including several adults and children, pose in a grassy backyard with trees and a house in the background.Six adult women sit on grass, each holding a baby or toddler, outdoors with green trees in the background.Four women and four young children sit on green grass with plants in the background.A man holds rope on a sailboat with several other people, a large sail, and blue water with distant land.A man holding ropes on a sailboat with three other people and a child, sailing on blue water.

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