Riding the wave

Where did June go?  In fact, I'm not even sure where May or April went, let alone June.  July promises to be action packed as well. 

I think the theme for this letter is riding.  Or at least the photos.

There's one of Thomas and John riding a horse, one of Simon riding on the bike, and one of Jeff and Melodie riding on a boat. 

Does anyone know where Wachapregue is?  Or better, does anyone even know how to pronounce it?  I guess we'll have to ask Jeff and Melodie because this is where the photo below is taken.  Anywhere near Chincoteague?  It doesn't look like they were camping on the beach.  Remember?

Covid continues to affect us. Or, to stick with the theme, we're still riding the Covid wave.  Margaret just wrote to say that someone in Simon's class just tested positive so they're having to shut down the day care.  Simon by the way got his first shot and was a big boy, no tears and even got a Happy Meal out of it.  (I got my fourth shot but no Happy Meal.  But also no bad reaction.)

And, we just heard from our British friends, the Locherys whose daughter is getting married this weekend.  Both she and her fiancé have Covid; he's through it now, but Katherine is still positive.  We are supposed to go to the wedding on Saturday.

We were also supposed to ride a pontoon boat on our lake for Father's Day with our Peace Corps friends, but when we woke up it was 49 degrees and windy.  Fortunately, the boat rental people didn't charge us as we had reserved the boat well in advance. (You wouldn't believe how many fathers like boats.)

The night before, it was just as cold but also rainy, and guess where we were?  Tanglewood, to hear Bonnie Raitt.  She was great, but as you can see it tested our endurance.  Not quite as much as Shackleton, but almost.

Annie rode on a plane to come out here the same weekend.  She had a meet-up with Hamilton friends in Monterrey (MA not CA) and she stayed here a couple of nights.  She had an adventurous flight out here, but figured out a new route that included a train ride and didn't miss her buddies.

And somewhere on Green Lake in Wisconsin, I suspect Andrew is steering a pontoon boat for his family, everyone except Daniel.  Claire came up to help open the camp near Green Lake where she has previously worked, and Bill and Jen and their family also rented a house on the lake for the week. 

Joe bought airplane tickets for this coming week, to come back for a few weeks with Thomas and John; unfortunately, Leonor can't make it, as she'll stay in Brazil with Luisa and return to work, her maternity days used up.

Here in the Berkshires, we've been bike riding and kayak riding, as the weather has warmed up, and we continue tutoring, hiking, and swimming. Mowing the lawn and weeding, but we've had lettuce, radishes and strawberries so far.  Mary won't like me saying this but she found out she is top ten in the world in the 200 breast stroke. How bout them apples?

Down in NJ we see Janet back to doing her audio description and Peter completed auditing a class on the Civil War.  They are heading out to Chicago in August for Johanna's graduation. 

And, in the birthday department, today is Leonor's big day.  Parabéns, chica. 

The next letter will probably have a dateline Mt. Springs on it.  Can't wait.

Love from up here.