Sneaking Some Summer into Spring

There are always a few days in spring that feel like summer. Yesterday was one of those days. It was 82 degrees at 9:30 a.m. I know this because we started shearing sheep at 8:30 a.m., and by the time we were done with the first one, I was so hot I figured more time must have passed than I'd thought and it had to be at least 10:30. But no, it was 9:30. And it was hot. So instead of going to sit down on the beach with a cold drink like sensible people, we sheared the ram.

That was lots of fun.

Then, smelling like sheep ourselves, we went to the dump. On our way home, we stopped at our friends' house, who are good enough friends that they didn't comment on our sheep stench or the fact that we had sheep shit on a good portion of our clothes. And THEN, we finally went home to shower and crash.

By 5 p.m., we had recovered sufficiently to have a cocktail or two and then go sit down on our beach, where we had the first bonfire of the season and spent a couple of hours marveling at the fact that we were sitting outside. In short sleeves. And weren't cold. Glorious.

But the fun didn't end there! When we went back up to the house around 10 p.m., we had a message from a friend who told us the nearby college was having a fireworks display on the lake that night. So we went to another friend's dock, about a mile away from where they were shooting off the fireworks, to watch. Man, I love fireworks.

Today will be back to normal spring weather--65 degrees and cloudy. Better weather for working outside, which we will be doing, but the one really warm day was a nice little vacation day, anyway.

And yes, a vacation day at Blackrock can include shearing sheep. Welcome to my world.