It was Memorial Day weekend and good weather was promised. On Sunday afternoon (after a cloudy and cool Saturday), we checked The Weather Channel and were told that there was no rain in Groton, just 15 mikes south of our marina. Just one look at those clouds and even the the dumbest, first year weather reporter would be able to tell that it was going to rain.
And rain it did. Not a nice spring shower but a real, windy downpour with lots of hale. Nice going, Weather Channel. As the storm approached, the National Weather Service was cautioning heavy rain. What were you guys watching, The Cartoon Channel?
OK, rant over. We had a nice weekend with many returning boaters now back in their slips. Seems like the number of grand kids increased, but that's fine. There were a few more boat dogs, too, and they are also welcome and fun to have around. Last year's favorite, a black lab puppy named Lena, grew into quite a beautiful young lady. May that should be "girl," since she kisses anyone within 20 feet.
We're still putting things away and sorting out the boxes of stuff that we took off the boat last November. Everything will fit, we're sure.
Since it was a holiday weekend, Frances took the lead in organizing a Sunday afternoon pot luck dinner. For the group at our end of the dock, this is always something to look forward to. Since the rain had stopped, at 6 PM, Frances gave the word and out came the food. There was just about anything that you could want. Even Lena, the black lab, who never eats people food, vacuumed up the dock for anything that had been dropped.
I think we tasted about everything and everything was really good. We have to give a special mention to Sue's Kielbasa. Check out the end of the video. That woman can cook!
Frances took some stills of a couple of our friends. First, Rob, who knows a lot about, and enjoys, great food.
and then John, the only person we trust to run our boat.
He looks grumpy, be he's not!
Here's the video from Memorial Day.
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