On Heliotrope, with Karen and Earl.

Typical sunny, warm, calm, and dry morning. But by afternoon a brisk and building south wind and some high cloud. Lively sail around the bay, somewhat reefed in honor of the guests. Then a tasty hors d'oeuvre and sandwich supper. Earl has been coming to Kagawong for more that 40 years, first arriving on one of his working tugboats, with his giant Bouvier de Flandres appropriately named 'Tug.'

Fingers crossed that some weather is is just over the horizon.