Weather happens

Monday was a great day for sailing on Madawaska Lake. For me that involved watching someone else sailing. Very breezy and sunny afternoon after a very cold morning start to the day - 38 degrees... gave me second thoughts about going outdoors. I did a little repair work on the floor of the porch later in the morning, Carol and I had some lunch then a short while later we went for our walk along the South Shore road and stopped in at Jim and Jan's place for visit after which we returned to the camp. That made for about a 3 and a quarter mile walk, around 8,000 steps. Then it was back to reading at lake side. Carol has been alternating reading with Swedish weaving. Margaret brought over a turkey stew for supper then returned home to prepare for Jim and Jan's arrival to watch the RedSox game and we would join them soon. In the meantime as warned by the evening news weather report a fast moving storm front was coming our way from the northwest with violent thunderstorms.

This group of loon hatchlings accompanied by two adult females felt it was OK to dawdle on the neighbors boat dock.

This is Monday's sunset photo, obscured a bit by the approaching storm front.

My camera batteries ran low so the following pictures were taken with my cell phone.

Here comes the rain - been hearing thunder for the pass 20 minutes.

It was time to head to Margaret's to watch the ball game and the oncoming storm seemed to chase us into Stockholm.

This is after turning down Lake Street leading into town.

We got to Margret's just as the rain, thunder and lightening hit but other than a single power flash the storm passed over quickly and we watched (a little dozing on my part) the RedSox win a very well played game.