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| Uncle Ben's Remedy |
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| 7:27 |
It's 9:00 as I start my blog having slept in until 7:20 after a wild night of music and dancing, sort of. This was, also, the first morning of kayaking where it felt like summer, the heat already bearing down as I began to paddle. I was out for a half-hour, caught a quick shot of an eagle, then lots of shots of a heron sitting in a tree above the reeds. We are listening to Uncle Ben's Remedy on Apple Music as I write this.
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| Kayak Morning |
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| A Bearded Old Guy |
Saturday, despite the temperatures in the low '80s, was a busy day outside. I took a long paddle before returning to the blog, breakfast, and a meander around Woodlawn, seeing who is up for the weekend. We gathered up the trash and I took it off to the Transfer Station, busy as usual. While I was gone, Evie wrapped up the Ziti, froze it, and started to make one of our kids' favorite appetizers, Hanky Pankies, a favorite from the '70s and '80s. When I returned, I planned on replacing a board or two on our dock but found I was missing the proper bit. I must have lent it to someone so I will have to pick up another one at Home Depot and replace the board later. By the time we were through in the house, it was time for my lunch, the leftover lasagna from Friday night and I watched, what else, the NBA and a few minutes of my series, Queen Of The South.
The afternoon was exceedingly warm but it did not stop Evie from mowing both our yard and part of our neighbors, taking breaks for water, and making sure she did not overdo it. While she mowed, I napped briefly, read some, then when she was done, helped set up the hose to water some of the brown spots in our front yard. Evie relaxed in a lawn chair, occasionally rising to move the hose. I got busy in the back yard and worked for over an hour on our brick walk, edging it and digging out the weeds and moss. We were both done with everything by 5:00, put away our tools, and took showers.
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| It's Beer Time |
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| A Perfect Night For Music |
We were going to the Big Inlet Brewery to listen to our favorite band, Uncle Ben's Remedy. We picked up Linda and Ron at 6:15 and arrived at a full parking lot, a venue with hardly a seat left. We found a spot to park and met up with our neighbors, Jim and Barb, who had been there since 5:00 listening to the first band The Growlers. While we talked with them, Evie was able to scrounge up four chairs, fairly close to the stage so we were lucky. The lines for beers were long, 15 to 20 people long, so Linda and Ron waited and brought back six beers, hopefully, to last us for a bit. Uncle Ben's Remedy was great and almost immediately, fans started dancing. We watched for an hour, were able to move our chairs to a table, and had terrible loaded tacos for dinner because the food truck was out of everything else.
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| Uncle Ben |
Because we had a table close to the stage, Barb and Jim joined us and both Evie and Barb started dancing with the other dancers, mostly women. As we were watching, the bass player came off stage, jumped up on a table in front of us, and fell over backward. Luckily, I caught his base and helped him get up, seemingly unhurt because he kept playing. Our neighbors left about 8:00 and by 8:30, it was starting to get crazy, and more or more people were dancing.
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| Still Playing |
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| "Here's To You, Here's To Me" |
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| Getting Crazy |
Evie and I joined them and rocked out for the next half hour, surrounded by happy people, drinking and spilling beers, but smiling and fist-bumping and jumping to the music. We loved it. We left just afternoon as it was starting to get dark and Uncle Ben's Remedy was still playing. This is the third time we have seen Uncle Ben's and they are coming up again in late August to The Blue Heron. We were home just before 10:00. watched some TV to wind down from our high and went to bed in the heat.
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