I had a wonderful weekend up at the cottage of Rob and Anna Kennedy, two choir members at St. Thomas's Church. I drove up with Heather Fitzgerald and her husband Jeremy, who is a graphic artist. (I plan on following up with him to see if I can buy a print or two -- he showed me some of his work and it's great!) The Kennedy compound (I kept wanting to call it Kennebunkport, after the home of the American royalty, but the web tells me I was wrong, it's in Hyannisport) has three cottages on a very nice lake, and we swam, ate, sailed, windsurfed, ate, swam, chatted, and ate all weekend. The weather was fantastic.

Highlights:
- variable winds pushing me all over the lake on the windsurfer (I hadn't windsurfed since high school but it came right back)
- Andrew turning out to be the Energizer bunny of swimming (unbelievable distances, basically never stopped)
- Dierdre's boyfriend Greg telling us all that the gifted program for kids was created so that the government can track potential troublemakers
- hummingbirds duelling with little tiny lightsabers over access to the sugarwater birdfeeder
- stopping randomly during the drive at a tiny diner with ridiculously low prices... in BOTH directions
- singing along with Manhatten Transfer on the way back
- realizing that I'd crispy-fried my shoulders (ouch!)
- tasting the baked potato with garlic butter

I'm LOVING this summer. Just two weeks until Algonquin Park!
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