weather was around 70degF and SUNNY--both days, baby--with a little breeze by the lake. ah, it was lovely.
and i cannot, for the life of me, remember what happened on which day.
story of my life.
anible and i brought food to upper buttermilk in the afternoon, walked around the pond. it's a nice walk, lots of off-trail jaunts available. where the trail crosses a stream there's a place to play on the river islands, skip stones and get feet wet. we stopped there for a bit--it was almost an out-of-body experience, to have such glorious weather. did you know, my area had rain for 26 days straight last month? but to continue. it's mostly flat until you cross the stream, at which point it turns into six mile creek. updownupdown. cliffs and so forth.
we went biking on another day (sunday? it could have been sunday). had an absolutely rotten time, but it was good for me and the weather was still postcard-esque. sat in the grass at cornell plantation for a while beforehand. i was working, he slept. mostly. could have lingered there much longer than we did...
yesterday (i think) mum and grandpa and i went sailing. which was quite a feat, considering the complete lack of atmospheric energy. (also considering a near-collision with a stack of slate--my fault, of course. mom rescued us.) was pretty funny, grandpa had heard there would be 10-18 knots blowing, and the lake was clear as glass. (i had the tiller when mum and grandpa were setting up the mast. "point it into the wind, gemma!" "what wind?! where's it coming from?!") no matter, it was lovely regardless. i hadn't seen grandpa's new boat, 18-ish footer and wide as a tank. you could seat 12 people in this thing. first time i've sailed in a gaff rig. very exciting, you know. the wind did pick up after we'd been drifting for about an hour, and we had a nice sail. and i drove everyone nuts with my camera. she's a good boat, we'll have fun with her. solid, but not so much so as to be boring. ah, we will have fun with her. *grin grin*in the websphere, redemption in a blog has released version 0.2 of his mbox-to-gmail importing utility, gexodus. it will take your mozilla mail or thunderbird mailbox files and import them into your gmail account. haven't tried it yet, still waiting for the recursive directories feature, but looks like a great tool. (incidentally, if you don't have a gmail account and you'd like one, leave a comment with your [spamified] email address and i'll send an invitation your way. i've got a few left, and no one i know wants them.)
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