Another weekend in paradise. Funny, I lived in ‘vacationland’ for like 12-13 years, but I’m having more fun this summer than I can ever remember having. Saturday Andrew swung by with his new black lab puppy (Stan) and we went to the hudson with a kayak and the dogs and spent hours swimming, paddling and playing with the dogs. Stan was mostly intimidated by the water but he did hop in at one point and swim his way out to Andrew, and at another point he managed to fall out of the kayak and then swam (with more than a little whimpering) to shore, roughly 10-15 yards. You have to give the little guy credit given that he’s only 8 weeks old and much smaller than say, a football. Every time Soolin swam near him when he was in the water he would lose power and get swamped in the turbulence created by her passage, sometimes only his nose would stick above the water as he tried to get back underway. No wonder he mostly wanted to scamper around on the riverbank.

Sunday was ‘finish building new computer’ day – despite it being gorgeous out I spent the morning working on that (I’ll post about it separately) then I worked out and headed to Andrew’s for an awesome beer-fueled summer barbecue.