More than what you may have asked for.

I am sitting on the front deck, in the green chair behind the white patio coffee table with my feet up and a cold beer at my right hand ready. The sun is obviously out yet high clouds are to morph into low lying storm clouds tonight bringing wind and rain into the early morning hours. Tomorrow, another awakening to the sounds of rain outside my bedroom window. Our now 51 year old cottage itself has morphed into a picturesque cabin in the woods, by a lake, surrounded by wilderness. Not seen, but obviously present is telephone service and high speed internet. I could get a satallite dish and be able to watch television, summer re-runs of last year's action shows and situational comedies. Maybe, with enough channels, I could watch the Cleveland Indians baseball team, live.
Of course, I could go out to the island and sit in the shade of the gazebo, watch the clouds roll in. The winds are strong and out of the South. As the Bay is sheltered, the water looks calm. The Canadian flag across the way is really whipping around which helps me guage wind speed. The Environmental Canada weather forecast for Northern Lake Huron is for winds 20 to 25 knots and waves to 2 meters. The barometer on the wall in the cottage has been falling all day so a low pressure system is coming and the forecast for a storm sounds reasonable. I still like my line of sight flag waving as a guestimate. The Northern Lake Huron buoy 40001's readings and the interpretation of its readings does help add precision to my wet fingertip in the air weather forecast.
We have red geraniums and another red spindly flower that serves as a beacon for the Humming-birds. Our sugary sweet offerings keep them coming back. It is somewhat amazing to me that the Hummingbirds were buzzing around here a month ago, before red flowers and before sugar flavored feeder water. They kept coming back and buzzing the location where the planters were last year. Maybe they would have eventually given up had Kathy not come up two weeks ago and we bought the flowers, filled the feeders, and then watched and waited. It seems there is a lot of that going on up here: watching and waiting.

RJ, Nana and Rhythm are coming up to the cottage beginning with the July 4th USA holiday and returning to the West Coast the following Sunday. I have arranged for that week to be sunny and warm, the water refreshing, and the boats in the water. How could you ask for anything more?

Well, my beer is done, so I guess its time for me to do something else for a while.