We headed to the lake today. Julie joined us. We saw Joe on the docks. And we floated with Rory and Greg for a bit in arky south. Tonight is a Texas Sailing raftup but have plans for tomorrow, so headed home tonight. I wish every day was a weekend. Cheers to my peeps. To those if you I haven’t seen in a while – I miss ya’ll !
We made it home in time to grill up some yummy grub,too.
Oh, the malaise of a Thursday… unceremoniously stuck between “Hump Day” and “TGIF.” Is there a motto for Thursdays?
Well my highlight for today was picking up Julie from the airport. She’s back for school – the semester starts in a few weeks. She plans to move in with a friend that she met last semester, so we’ll be empty nesters soon. Since she passed her RN exam over the summer, she’s official now and is hoping to work at a local hospital while she’s going to school. What a kid!
And, before I sign off… here is a link to a short (5-ish minutes) TED video a colleague sent me today. It has a 10 tips/shortcuts for using technology more efficiently. I knew about most of them but not all. The first one blew me away….who knew?
Happy post-humpday TGIF-eve!!
Monday. Bleh.
Early this morning I collected all the photos I took while Jake was here and put them on a SDRAM card for him to take home with him. Here is one from the tubing trip yesterday. A humongous dragonfly landed on Jake’s head. I had to try to get a close-up.
I drove him (Jake, not the dragonfly) to the airport today, and he’s on his way home. Being an aunt is the next best thing to being a mom, I guess. I love my nieces and nephews, but live far away from them. I am very glad they (and their parents) don’t mind having to trek across the country for a visit.
We went toobing today on the San Marcos. It’s always a great time – we try to make it out there at least once every summer. It’s funny, all the toobing photos from every year look like exactly the same trip. 🙂
We had a great day on the lake today. The winds picked up so we pulled anchor and sailed over to the Gnarly Gar and had lunch. Jake did great at the helm. On the way back to the marina, the winds were so light that Monte and Jake were able to jump in and be towed behind the boat, as we sailed along at about half a knot.
When we got back home, Keeto was very happy to see the flock return, as usual. He’s a funny bird.
The evening was filled with Wii contests of strength and speed; a delicious spread of sauteed pork chops, pasta and kale that Jake prepared; and the mandatory showing of Captain Ron for new-sailor initiation.
A great weekend!
Our nephew Jake is visiting for a week or so. We had pizza night last night and today we headed to the lake. Of course.
Jane and Jeff joined us on Destiny. It was a beautiful day. After last week’s rain a straggler shower or two dodged around on the horizon.
We didn’t get rain but were treated to this rainbow from arky south.
After spending any time on a boat, most people come home with various and sundry cuts, bumps, scrapes, sprains and bruises. We call them “unexplainable boat injuries,” or UBIs. This is my latest one. I have no idea when it happened, and it never even hurt. Weird.
Oh, and yes, you’re correct if you think I’m running out of material, and/or trying to avoid the pile of work in my inbox. Both are true today. Have a nice day! 🙂
…but I’ll take it!! It started raining today, slow and light rainfall but it is most welcome. We need 90 days of this.
It’s Saturday!! Keeto loves to help out with making the grocery list. 🙂
My other helper made awesome daiquiris at the end of the day. I wish every day was saturday. Cheers!
My risotto-eer has been at it again. Tonight he made Basil Risotto, with fresh basil and tomatoes from the garden. Delicious!
The recipe book is Risotto, by Clive Tring. Lots of good risotto recipes, with lovely photos of the dishes.
We headed to the lake after work tonight to meet Lynn, Dan, and their niece Paige at the marina. We headed to the cove for a float and dinner on the boat. A good time was had by all. This is a shot after sunset with Venus to the right of the crescent moon.
Pretty sky.
I’ve spent the entire day today jumping back into my genealogy research. I have recently connected with distant cousins in my same generation, all of who’s grandparents were siblings born in the late 1800s. It has rekindled the fire in me to transfer the myriad of notes, stories and photographs that I have compiled over the last decade or so into a cleanly documented family tree. And we are pooling our research.
It is especially challenging to research my ancestors because virtually all of my grandparent paths on all sides start in Ireland. So I’m enjoying joining forces on the research.
Once I make a pass through my ancestors’ part of the tree, I’ll do the same for Monte’s, for whom I have significantly more information.
We spent a second night on the lake last night. Nick and family had peeled off, so we had the anchor to ourselves. Today I paddled around the cove again. I went all the way up to where Arky cove ends. This is as far as I can go. As much as we still enjoy the lake immensely, in spite of the low lake levels, it’s hard to imagine that just a few years ago we would be able to sail up in here and beyond, to anchor, with about 40 or 50 more feet of water above where my head is. The lake is at its lowest in 50 years, right now: 625.5 feet above sea level, as we speak. Very sad. The lake is dropping as rapidly or more rapidly than it ever has during the summer… a foot or more this week, already. I don’t know what to say at this point other than this really sucks.
Pray for rain.
We anchored in the cove last night. Camelot joined us for the night with Lori & Doray. Kalliopi joined us with nick, Isabel, their kids and about 4 other girls. Quite the raftup! We grilled cheeseburgers off the back of the boat, in true July 4th style. Because of the drought, fireworks were few and far between. But we caught a glimpse of some.
We brought the kayak and the sailing dinghy. They’re getting used quite a bit.
And, here’s the obligatory arky cove sunset shot:
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