Sunday July 27 '14

We are having another fantastic day.  I just checked the weather on my phone and it says we are at 73 degrees!  It is pretty breezy, so it feels cooler.  But there is not a cloud to be seen.

Last night before dinner I took a couple of pictures of my new "line laundry" (a term a kite flying friend who lives down here told us means all that non-kite stuff you have flying from your tall pole).  Pretty great, but I have to figure out a better way to mount the pole.

Here is my double helix called "DNA".

With the two strips it always looks different.

I have it attached to Myrtle's back bumper with bungee cords and folded up a dish towel into a plastic bag and tied it to the pole at Myrtle's back window to keep the pole from bumping against Myrtle's skin.  Not elegant, but it does the job for now.

Dinner was fun last night.  The "heritage-dish potluck" dishes included fresh-caught salmon, Russian, Irish, Icelandic, Scottish, Romanian, Finnish, Swedish, English,  Nebraskan, Italian, Greek, and Dutch--and more.  Turns out we had more than 70 of us this weekend, so we had an amazing range of dishes  to try.

This morning we had only one new rig to baptize, so we had fun hearing it's story and toasting in apple juice.  There are definitely some girl scout echoes in our activities--we sang "Its a long long trail" to wish each other a safe trip home.  The majority of women headed home, but I think somewhere between a third and a quarter of us are sticking for another day or three.

As others were packing up, I got to play with the kittens again.  At 12 weeks they are completely happy to zip around wearing a harness and a leash.  The main problem is keeping the two leashes untangled!

The little girl is the adventurous one.

Her brother is deciding he also likes the
outdoors.  It took him a while.

Three of us went into town to have lunch at Bennet's again.  I had crab cakes today--absolutely delicious!  They have such a great menu that I have a very hard time making up my mind.  We might have to go back tomorrow--there are clams, halibut, cod, shrimp---but the local crab is sooo good.

We're sitting out in my friend Fran's screened "tent" with Fran knitting and me playing with the computer.  Actually I have been spending more time talking to all the RVW members who are walking by than I have writing.

Dinner tonight is left-over salmon and whatever everyone decides to bring to the rec center.  Should be fun!  I'll talk at you all tomorrow!