It was my kind of day ~ hot and humid. It felt like my core body temperature was finally getting back to normal. I took FG and her friend out early in the morning to practice soccer ~ passing lay-ups. To cool down afterwards, they ran through the sprinkler and ate ice cream sandwiches. Good times.
Later in the afternoon, FM and I went to the Sackets Harbor Beer and Wine Fest. We didn’t get there until almost closing time which worked out well ~ discount rate to get in and we still had access to the beer and wine samples.
Post-fest socializing (we saw a lot of people from the post), we went to a friend’s house for a wonderful BBQ. The host was kind of enough to remember I don’t eat meat and she especially cooked Portobello mushrooms for me. Unfortunately, I put the plate of two deliciously marinated and grilled Portobello mushrooms down and when I turned back someone had taken stolen one of the mushrooms! Those carnivores omnivores, they want their meat and then some…
When we left the house, it was 80 but as soon as the sun went down, the chill came back and it was a nice night for a bonfire. If it continues like this, I would say this is ideal weather ~ warm during the day and cool enough to sleep at night.
Displaced Beachbums 
Hi, Patti,
I’m teaching a middle school remedial reading course this summer, and the novel I’ve chosen for the kids is Graham Salisbury’s Night of the Howling Dogs, a fictionalized account of the Halape quake and tsunami of 1975. I was looking for Internet sites that would actually help the students enjoy researching the ’75 quake, and your blog popped up when I googled “big island tsunami 1975” (or something like that).
Your brother’s account of the landslide is the only personal account I’ve found so far, and I wondered if you would kindly consider giving me permission to duplicate the report and share it with my seventh graders. Also, if you have any more details about the event that didn’t make their way into the report, I would love to hear about them! If you email me, would you please choose a relevant subject line, so I won’t think it is junk mail?
By the way, you and your family would probably enjoy the novel! It’s newish (so only hardback so far), well-written (the characters are especially vivid), and written at an upper elementary school reading level.
Mahalo!
V. Coryell
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Jeez, people will steal just about anything won’t they? The weather is going to be nasty here (again), more storms:(
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I can’t imagine taking food off of someone else’s plate. That’s just odd, no matter what kind of omnivore I am! 🙂
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