Mostly sunny, with scattered showers

No one was as surprised as we were when P announced she wanted to go canoeing and then declared that it was AWESOME. We yanked the other 40-year-old aluminum boat out of the bushes, knocked out the spiders and had many short little trips around our bay, picking water lillies and smacking at water striders.

All went well until we took advantage of a break in some rainy weather to lift over a beaver dam into a narrow river and into the next lake. The combination of mud, thick lillies and distant thunder gave rise to some serious upset. The storm missed us and order was restored. Then we went swimming.