Cool days in Lake Geneva

Joann had her annual conference in Lake Geneva.  So after her conference ended, I joined her to spend the weekend at the lake with our good (or should I say great since we stayed at their condo and used their boat) friends, John and Linda.  Unfortunately, the weather continued its cool, cloudy, and rainy pattern so it was a little less than optimum for being outside and on the lake.

First up was an afternoon spent shopping downtown Lake Geneva where Jo was quite successful in helping the local economy flourish.  Nothing for me, but that is our usual shopping trips.  We enjoyed lunch at the Egg Harbor cafe and really had a good time mostly window shopping the various stores in town.  We did find out that my head is not apparently made for hats.  I tried on several that mostly made me look somewhere between goofy to ridiculous.

We got up Saturday morning and after our morning run on the path that goes all the way around the lake, we just lazed away the morning catching up with the happenings in John and Linda's household, which with four kids involves a lot more happenings than usually happen in ours.  Their youngest daughter was along for the trip and had just come back from touring Univ. of Illinois as a possible college (how it couldn't be the only possible choice is beyond us - go Illini).  Then the weather finally cleared up enough for us to get out the boat out on the lake.  We toured around the lake admiring all the incredible houses for which Lake Geneva is famous.  Then after a somewhat chilly ride back into Williams Bay, we just floated and drifted with the wind while we enjoyed a brief bit of sunshine and several folks got a nap.  The picture below, although I was threatened with bodily harm if I used it, is Linda texting their son.  It is one option for older people to see the screen of a smart phone in sunshine - not necessarily everyone's choice (but then what are the odds it would land up on the net?  pretty high if you ask me now a days).  What made this particularly funny is how often she kept doing it.

Sunday was brunch at Daddy Maxwell's where Jo got the pancakes she had been wanting it was time to head home and to get a few house chores done before another week of work.  For me that has consisted of getting the outside of our porch ready for painting.  For Jo it has been meetings, meetings, meetings, as she tries to catch up after several days out of the office.

As mentioned above, our weather has been particularly rainy and cool throughout May and now into June.  The result of which is our garden beds are struggling.  Things are having a hard time sprouting since we have only had a handful of days over 70 degrees.  So I'm not predicting a bumper year for vegetables.