19 August 2011

By this point in the summer I should pretty much disregard any weather forecast provided by NOAA.  I believe those scientists know what they are talking about; I also believe that Seguin lives in its own little bubble of uncertainty.  Based on the predictions, I had all but promised Mike & Shannon a quiet Friday of mostly fog & rain, with few visitors.  Long, intense games of Scrabble seemed to be imminent when we went to sleep last night.  Imagine our disappointment then, when we rose early this morning, to find the weather was foggy, but otherwise warm & sunny.  I knew then and there, as I was cooking sourdough pancakes, that our laid back day was doomed. 

I discovered shortly after breakfast that “doomed” was too mild of an adjective to use for our day.  I carried a cup of coffee out onto the porch to see five boats loaded down with people zipping towards the island out of the thinning fog; indeed, the Southport Yacht Club had returned.  For the second day in a row our peace was shattered by fifty loud kids.  I managed to get them in & out of the tower in reasonably short order, and they had just left when a clutch of forty people came up the hill, some from the Leeward, and some from their own boats.  We tied our record for busiest day by the time the fracas ended around 1500; the main difference today was that Alicia & Rich (a very nice couple from Westport) brought us an unlooked for gift bag of wine, cheese, and other snacks.  Thank you Alicia & Rich!  If you’re reading this, it lasted about two hours after you delivered it to us.  We put it to good use.

Aside from the huge amount of tours Amy & I gave, Mike & I managed to get three more windows painted, and I managed to get Phase II of Darcy’s physical therapy started.  The vet wanted us to begin attaching a weight to his lame leg in order to encourage him to use it.  Let me just say, our poodle puppy did not fancy having a 1lbs sand bag lashed to his leg with an ace bandage.  I got to hear all kinds of new disgruntled whining noises from our hound.

We finished today much like yesterday, playing hearts with Mike & Shannon, eating, drinking, and making merry.  It is a good end to another good day, for sure.  The weather is still holding steady, no rain, a steady gentle S’ly breeze, but with the high clouds definitely starting to shape up.  I (yet again) have full expectations for a relaxed day on Saturday.