TGIF

I made the Cannelloni last night (I forgot how messy and difficult those sucker are to stuff) and put it into bake. Jay's cousin Kaylor called a bit later and said he & the BF were going to stop by. He has a habit of 'stopping by' around dinner time. Bless him. He's the 'straightest' gay boy I know and doesn't do the domestic scene so his homemade meals are typically at our house when he wants one. As typical he was running about an hour late. I turned down the oven and tried to get dinner to hold. Unforunatly by the time they should up at 8:00 the pasta was a bit rubbery and the sauce more than a bit dried out. The stuffing was still good so we made a meal of that.

After dinner the pooch and I hit the lake. It may have been in the high 80*'s but someone forgot to tell Lake Washington. It's been a cool summer so the lake is still pretty cool. We didn't stay too long. Bear just wasn't that into it but I got some calories worked off. Below is a stolen internet pic of the lake near where I swim. I couldn't take the camera as I didn't want to leave it sitting on the beach while I swam. This would be the side of the lake just down the hill from our house. We can't see it from our place for all the trees. My office is on the far side of the lake, the hill you see on the right.

Interesting (to me) factoid: In 1700 there was a huge earthquake here. The hillside where my office is completely gave way and slide into the lake, forest and all. That forest still stands upright at the bottom of this very deep lake. The depth is one of the reasons it takes the lake almost all summer to warm up. The earthquake was part of Indian lore and also was registered by the Japanesse at the time due to the ensuing Tsunami/Tidal wave there. Recently there's been an effort to go down and harvest the trees down there. Apparently it's so cold down there it still make sense to get the wood after 300 years. Luckily the enviromentalist put the kybosh on that plan.

The hill on the left is Mercer Island (The land of rich people, but not too rich. Bill (Gates) didn't settle there) It also known as The Rock, because um, it's a rock. The whole lake was carved out by a glacier but even it couldn't wear down the rock that makes that island.



Got back to the house in time to snap the sunset pic. The boys were still there and they asked us to come out on thier boat tonight to take a run on the Duwamish River. It's the river that flows down the valley below us and empties into Elliot Bay in downtown. It should be fun and I'll take pics to post. It's pretty industrial in places as town grew up around it but there are a lot of cool, intersting nooks and crannies to explore.

We're starting to get more and more calls this morning complaining about A/C units not working. I've tried to work with a few of them asking if they have cool air coming from thier vents and explaining that most A/C units in this area arn't sized to keep you completely comfortable in 90* heat. We'll come out if you want us to, but I hate to have them waste the money for us to tell them thier units are working as they should. There's only so much they can do. It's only this warm a couple of days a year so it doesn't make sense to sell people big old hurking units they won't use most of the time.

I'm feeling a bit southern this morning, so Y'all have a great weekend!

BC