Warm Days on Lake Geneva

Our weather turned remarkably warmer at the end of last week and we took advantage of it by spending the weekend at Lake Geneva with our friend John (who was my college roommate).  We spent Friday on his boat drifting slowly with the wind across a large portion of the lake while catching up on family news and solving many of the world's problems - now if we could only get someone to listen and implement our solutions.  Saturday we were joined by two of his daughters and their friends which made for a much noisier time on the boat but also a lot more energy.  We did get out on John's wave runners for a little bit but soon discovered that while the air was warm, the water has a long way to go yet.

We came home Sunday after brunch, blueberry pancakes for me - yum, to catch up on a few chores around the house before heading to a high school graduation celebration for one of the people Jo works with.  We came home tired but relaxed as we had a great time with everyone.

My sister came up for a day visit on Thursday.  We spent the morning talking and doing a little baking at home before heading to the Art Museum so she could see the French poster exhibit.  The rest of the week was fairly quiet since Jo was in Lake Geneva for a business meeting that started on Wednesday.

One down note, we have finally discovered what is eating the leaves off the bean plants - bunnies.  They have managed to eat the leaves off of almost every plant in the beds.  We also have finches that are nipping at our pea plants.  So now we have to add more fencing to the garden to stop yet another animal from enjoying what is supposed to be our harvest.  Sure takes a lot of money to harvest fresh vegetables - talk about the $64 tomato.