Earlier this week, a friend invited Rudi and me to go sailing today. An exciting prospect — especially when this morning dawned clear and blue (not that we were up at dawn, of course).<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, someone forgot to tell the beautiful weather that we needed a bit of a breeze to billow our sails, and Phillip called to say his boat renter had called to say the water was “like glass” and that he should cancel. A very nice boat renter — it would certainly have been in her short-term financial interest to get us out on the water, anyway!<\/p>\n
Rudi hit the farm market while I was getting dressed for sailing (rose a little late — what a shock!<\/em>). He brought home the milk we needed, purple asparagus, four stems of ranunculus (very pretty!), and blueberry scones for us to eat en route to the marina.<\/p>\n Since we no longer had to race out the door, we settled in with the morning paper (I actually read a surprising amount of it today), the news pundits (CBS Sunday Morning<\/em>‘s Bill Geist had a hilarious piece on Lawrence, Kansas, and their post office’s party for the late-night tax filers on April 15), and the scones. These were not the best scones Country Pleasures have given us, but the blueberries were very sweet and yummy.<\/p>\n Eventually Rudi and I managed to tear ourselves away from the Nats game on tv (baseball games are so addictive!) and out on our bike rides. After last week, I didn’t really want to go out for a long ride, so I headed down to Hains Point with my book and my knitting (and a radio in case the game was still going by the time I made my way down there).<\/p>\n It was beautiful — and a great choice for a warm spring afternoon. Hains Point is directly opposite National Airport, so you get amazing views of airplanes landing and taking off (although plane-spotting isn’t as good without Dr. Pepper and Wendy’s french fries). Boats were out sailing on the Potomac and the Anacostia (by this point the wind had picked up a little bit, so there were even some sailboats! :() Families were out picnicking — as I was packing up I almost got run over during a touch football game.<\/p>\n I got in a few chapters of the book (still plugging away at The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay<\/em>) and a few rows of knitting in before heading home with a little bit of a tan (not enough to eliminate last weekend’s funny tan line, but maybe enough to blunt it so I don’t have to think about what shirt to put on in the morning) and 11.3 miles of riding under the belt.<\/p>\n All in all, a good day even without the fun of sailing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Earlier this week, a friend invited Rudi and me to go sailing today. An exciting prospect — especially when this morning dawned clear and blue (not that we were up at dawn, of course). Unfortunately, someone forgot to tell the beautiful weather that we needed a bit of a breeze to billow our sails, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n