It's back to the weather pattern of hot and humid, but no rain. It was a great spring and I knew it wouldn't last forever. Last night, it was cool enough to open the windows. but even with the fans going, it was still 78 upstairs. Ray got up about 4 and opened the windows downstairs, and that made it surprisingly cooler. His side of the bed is wet and smelly from sweat, even though we changed the sheets 3 days ago. He sweats a lot more than me and is hot at much lower temperatures most of the time.

Yesterday morning was pleasant. We have been trying to clear a path in the woods to the giant poplar, because I have the small group coming here on Monday for a "field trip." Cameron races around us, very excited. Ray breaks branches and clears things. One time he even brought a rake. I carefully study the lay of the land, trying to find the "natural" clearings. So far, it has been different every day.

I had an 11 o'clock meeting at the Land Trust with a woman from the Athens Banner-Herald. They will have an article in the paper on Sunday about the bike ride, so we are changing our early registration deadline to May 17 to give them time. Hopefully, hundreds of people will rush to register. After that, I was going to go talk to someone about beer, and have a leisurely lunch, but someone pointed out that ther was a staff meeting at 1, so I rushed to McDonald's to get something to eat, which give me diarrhea later in the day.

The writer's workshop was amazing, with people writing about their mother being taken away and committed, and their grandson being missing from their life because his mother decided she wanted him back. Very emotional stuff.

It was hot when we came home, so I didn't go out for a couple hours. The Captain had picked peas, thank goodness. Ray made some goulash for supper and it was tasty. Nothing more to report, unless you count watching the end of Fifth Element for the 100th time (not really). Ray was chuckling away and I love it too.