Finally!
After a couple of months of rain, rain, rain, we had a sunshiny, nice day!
We've lived here for over 30 years and I don't think we have ever had so many crappy days without a break.
We had grilled hot dogs and salad and sat there sipping wine and looking at wispy clouds that looked like hands or turtles or rabbits. The dogs enjoyed the sunshine just as much as we did.
It was a gorgeous day but unfortunately it was one day in a row. Now we're back to more rain.
Carol and I decided to get a canopy for our patio so we could spend more time outside on hot sunny, (Ha!) and the more likely, rainy days.
We found some 10' X 10” nylon canopies at Wal-Mart for $97.00, bought one and set it up over our patio furniture. Several weeks later they went on sale for $69.00. Oh well!
I saw a project on the Popular Mechanics web site for building a “Tiki Bar” and thought that it looked pretty cool, so I talked Carol into letting me partially enclose the canopy with roll-up blinds and make a bar for ice and drinks.
We found an old 78 RPM record cabinet at a yard sale that was the right height for the bar and I had salvaged a heat lamp table that I made for the restaurant years ago for the bar top.
We hung the blinds from the canopy frame and we now have a cozy enclosure that we can open or close when we want.
What's that bright light? Up there in the sky! Ow! it hurts my eyes!
The sun actually came out this morning, so JC, Taz and I went for a long overdue beach walk.
As usual, Ona beach has changed completely from the last time we were there, the high surf has uncovered some prehistoric tree stumps along with an ancient peat bog. They've been preserved by being buried in the sand and are thousands of years old, the result of a massive earthquake and tsunami, which dropped an entire forest into the surf and then covered it over.
The sand at the north end of the beach was all gone exposing the bedrock and several agate beds. I forgot my camera but JC took some nice pictures of Taz and I. Taz seemed to enjoy getting out as much as we did, I'm sure he gets cabin fever too.
Carol and I went over to JC's this afternoon to get copies of the pics he took and have a few glasses of wine. It's already clouding over for the next storm system to come through, but it sure was a great morning!
