Today has been a beautiful sunny day right from the start.

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I awoke early (6:30am) and eventually got out of bed at 7:00am made big cup of tea and sat out on the deck in the morning sun. I love the summer mornings here. No noise other than birds singing and I sat sipping my tea and thinking about nothing much in particular. Luxury!. Kathryn was up about 8am to go for breakfast with some of her friends before working today.

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Julie and Gemma got out of bed about 9am and we all sat our on the deck with a boiled egg breakfast. So civilised

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I have a couple of photos for you. one of the above ground pool now full and a nature shot taken by Gemma the ace photographer.

15 foot diameter and 4 foot deep.Visitors to be bring your cozies!

Gemma's bumblebee close up using my Fuji S7000 in Macro mode

In the afternoon we went off to Wilmot Park for the Newcomers club Potluck Picnic in the Park event. We had a good turn out of about 30+ and we played some boules, tennis, badmington and frizbee throwing. The beauty of the potluck concept is everyone contributes some food and collectively you have a great meal. We took a potato salad and a pile of chicken wings with an orange sauce. Everyone had a good time and it lasted from 3- to around 6pm.   Sorry no group photo this time (too busy having a good time ).

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We have just finished mowing the grass and are exhausted. Mowing our half acre of lawns is certainly a good way to get fit.  One thing I noticed surprisingly few mosquitos today (Megacatcher is doing its job!) . I would say this summer we have used about half the amount of repellent we would normally use. So now we are relaxing with a coffee, slice of toast and waiting for an episode of Lewis which is being broadcast on the New England PBS channel.

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This coming week I am in Halifax and next weekend is a long weekend after which I am off to Montreal. They want me to carry out some replanning on a very large project ($100 million) .  I guess they have more confidence in me than I thought, or it is in such a mess they think I cannot make it worse