Wilting Weekend and a Stressful Monday

Friday night was pretty much a marathon for the Feeder, as he first attended the lecture at Sotterley Plantation, held in the sweltering barn with only a few fans (rotating kind) for relief. It was an interesting talk about the development of the John Smith trail, and the journey to make that happen. The wheels of government do indeed turn slowly. It was more on the process than the actual trail and historical stuff, but interesting none the less.

After that, I got in the (air conditionless) fluttermobile and headed to Leonardtown, where, although I missed the general first Friday stuff, I did join MFO and some friends in the Back Room at The Front Porch. Despite the whirlwind of customers, that remained a little oasis of calm and a nice place to sit and drink and nibble. Since this was their first weekend being open, there were learning curves being climbed, and our experience reflected their youth. So, no pronouncements yet, give them some practice and we’ll see where they go. It has promise.

The rest of the weekend was spent in more sweltering heat, with the gray lagoon. Our normal “pool people” were unresponsive in getting back to me about opening the pool, so MFO and a neighbor sucked it up and pretty much did it ourselves. Remove and fold the cover, expose the green soup, haul all the ancillary equipment up from the basement, hook it up, crack a couple of fittings, play with the valves, break the ears off one, lose tools, pull plugs from skimmers and returns, etc.,…..all with temps and humidity’s in the nineties. Not fun. But, in the end the pump did it’s thing, water moved, shock was liberally applied to the agua, and now the clarification process begins. We hope to have it crystal clear for the fourth of July. Frankly, I sort of put owing a pool right alongside of owning a boat.. Better to have friends with them.

Finally last night, as the weather people interrupted a pretty good golf tournament with dire predictions of storms and tornado warnings, a storm did approach looking sort of fierce.



So go to thunderstorm condition 2 and put all the pool deck furniture in the side yard, along with anything else that could blow around. Well, it worked, we got some pretty hefty rain but no heavy winds and no close lightning. The lights flickered a couple of times causing resets to digital clocks and fans, but then some beautiful clouds came behind the storm.




And even brought out some guests…



Today is supposed to be much better, but (here’s the stressful part), your aging Feeder will be spending most of it doing a stress test at the Bean Building. Not fun, but I suppose it’s worth while every so often. Put yourself in the hands of others. Hmmm…

But when that’s over, maybe a nice something cold will help restore the psyche.. and then I’ll

DFC(ocktails)