…including a sleepover tonight. Singing (Japanese bananas), park, bike rides, Aquatic Center, Rick’s Eastside Pub, reading, and lots and lots of conversation. The boys are quick, incredibly well informed, and loquacious.
Photos by Mimi
…on the August 13 Wisconsin constitutional amendment. Deceptively written gobbledegook trying to consolidate power in the gerrymandered MAGA legislature. Since we won’t be in Wisconsin on August 13 we have asked for absentee ballots to be mailed to Kagawong, hoping the mail will be fast enough to get our ballots back to the municipal clerk in time to be counted.
Hellish weather, which limits outdoor activity, though we did pull weeds early this morning. The garden is a total loss and will be mowed tomorrow. Next year covered in fabric and perhaps hosting ever-bearing raspberries?
Successful gardens are a continuously interactive pas de deux. Vegetables, like beets, appreciate attention, whereas plants like buckthorn, mulberry, wild grape, deadly nightshade, and creeping charlie, among many others, have figured out how to go it alone. Sometimes I try to imagine what this yard would look like if left alone, but then I get the fantods. Might be fine if we had giant herbivores and unsuppressed wildfire.
Big thunderstorm last night with another predicted for tonight, thus extending the string of stormy weather.
…to another long road trip. Rain from Espanola to the Sault. Then the thermometer started climbing. Extremely green and hot and humid in WW. Garden an overgrown weed lot. Maybe time to convert it to something else.
Glad the AC is working.
Huge Falls crowd causing a traffic delay on our way to the dump. Prepping for tomorrow’s travel.
Wildlife seen today—grouse, tern, gull, crow, jay, goose, merganser, loon, eagle, squirrel, mink, slug, mosquito. Lots of others heard.
…even this far north.
Both boats spider-proofed with newly recommended spider repellent, the name of which I can’t remember. Sue joined the Lane pothole crew while I worked on remodeling some aspects of the little white dinghy.
In for an evening dip in spite of a few clouds and a breezy south wind.
Took long-time neighbors for a sail on Heliotrope, but way more sun than wind. Had to jump in the lake afterward.
Also in the marina today, thick mats of former shadflies and the square rigged training barque.
Last night the third, and biggest, shadfly irruption, and maybe the last. Boat littered with spent male flies.
Remnants of the hurricane here—showers with downpours. Highly humid.
Above, beaked hazelnuts ripening. Below, resident tree frog.
Plastic boulder, fabric tulips—what’s Serendipity coming to?
In other news, visiting friends have returned to Colorado, which is sad, but rather than getting down in the dumps, we went to the dump.
…afternoon Windride. Warm, partly sunny, south wind.
Photo by Liz.
Kind of forgot to blog on July 6.
Dinner party and many rounds of Swoosh can cause forgetfulness.
…almost entirely under sail. There wasn’t much wind, but we found what there was and made more than four knots most of the time. Very nice lunch at anchor.
Photo by Liz.
…without much rain. Ojibwa Cultural Center, the Muchmore in Providence Bay, Perivale Gallery, Split Rail Brewpub, Purvis Fish and Chips, East Bluff overlook.
… on a beautiful day.
Dinner and conversation. Nice.
…in preparation for visitors from Colorado. Had to go to both Mindemoya and Gore Bay to complete the shopping list. (Both stores somewhat depleted after the holiday. )
Pretty much stumped about how to get out of the political quagmire in the U.S.
Strong south wind, a few afternoon wisps of drizzle. And, now that I mentioned the lack of transients, two in the marina tonight
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Cottages occupied, parties, fireworks—but nothing excessive. Good beach day—sunny, warm, and calm. Water warm enough for a swim.
Three sailboats anchored off, but no transients. In fact, no transients all year. Season off to a slow start.
Not on this year’s to-do list, but what’s the fun of having a boat if you don’t work on it all the time?
Quite chilly last night, after a little rain. Blustery west wind today.
Water up; probably wind induced.
Two varieties of Asclepias.
But, to my untrained eye, no sign of eggs or baby caterpillars.
…so bit of a gray day. Something between mist and drizzle.
Kayak back in service. Mimi accomplished a variety of tasks.
Not much sleep last night. Still trying to recover from the debate.
Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior.
