Another really nice spring day. We've had a nice breeze all day that helps dry things out - so tomorrow's rain will be better absorbed, I expect.  We were surprised last week to see farmers cutting hay along the route to Burlington.  It seems early, but perhaps not.

Summer is just about here.  We enjoyed a few minutes sitting with Bill and Diane Rossi on their boathouse deck Saturday.  We were  surprised at how much activity there was on the water.  Bill and Diane do the same as we used to do when we lived on the water - wave at every boat going by whether you know them or not.  I was remembering that when we first had our cottage on the pond in the early 1960s, there weren't that many boats and we got to recognize just about every one that went by.  That meant we paid attention to "strange" boats and wondered who'd traded or whether it was someone there just for the day.  We didn't have as many day visitors either as we do today, either, as I recall.  We always had binoculars close by, and I noticed Diane and Bill do, too.  It's nice to be able to recognize who you're waving at.

 We've had several inquiries about where to get tickets for the suppers at the Joe's Pond Association pavilion, and Pam told me today tickets for the Italian Dinner on July 25th are going well - I assume that means other dinner tickets are, too.  The steak dinner is coming up on July 11th.  Pam stopped by to pick up extra Ice-Out tickets.  I noticed when I went to Hastings on Saturday a lot of folks have picked up their envelopes with Ice-Out tickets, and that's good.  Like Pam said, people like to have them in order to sell or give them to visitors during the summer.  There have been several years when members bought large numbers of tickets to give as favors at wedding receptions.  We did that at Bill and Monika's wedding, and the guests loved getting them. It would be fun to have them at family reunions, too. 

We are pleased that our older granddaughter, Jo-Ann, will be working at Whale's Tale water park in Lincoln, N.H. this year. She will be a life guard, and had to do training and pass tests to become certified and is now ready to go.  It's incredible that she is old enough to have her first real job.   I don't think she even knew how to swim when she came here from Namibia, but being at Joe's Pond that summer took care of that for her and for her mom, Monika, too.  I think they also both got water skiing lessons from Dad and Uncles Bob and Jamie.

Bob stopped by today - he'd been out on his mountain bike.  He told us his new band, "The Hit Men," will be playing in Newport on the Fourth - they will also be at Danville Fair on August 8th.  They will be playing for a wedding at the pavilion I think on July 18th - so we may have to do a "drive-by" in a boat, or if the air is just right we will be able to hear them from our deck here.  Sound travels well across water and up the hillsides!