By the Lake

This being Monday--or so I'm told, I'm not paying much attention to a calendar these days--the Chap was free, so we had some rare together time at the cottage. We weren't alone.

We took one of the out-of-state holidaymakers on a spin in my new car--all the way to the town dump. It was nice having someone to carry the recyclables to the bins for us!



In the non-recycling section, the rubbish-moving vehicle is adorned with mascot.



You can tell by all the watercraft that kids are visiting.



They decided that our seagull whirligig needed a nest.



Quick photo before swimming.



Seven ducks.



Seven swimmers. (Six Porters and one German au pair. There were seven Porters in the lake before I got out to take a photo.)



The water was 79 degrees. It rarely gets any warmer. Another scorcher but we natives were so starved for decent swimming weather that we're not complaining.