This morning served as part of a small group of volunteers helping out the paid staff of Manitoulin Streams plant hundreds of trees along the shore and on the island in the middle of the lower Kagawong River, which has just some undergone significant renovation. For an hour or so I worked alongside Michael Belmore, the native artist who has done the stone sculptures that will now be gracing the stream. He grew up in Thunder Bay, went to some good art schools, and has been pretty much homeless ever since, traveling the world on consignments and serving as artist in residence. He is looking at settling down here on the Island very soon.

Come late afternoon, I winched Patrick up Heliotrope’s mast in a bosun’s chair to drill the rivets out of the spreader light bracket that had parted from the lamp.

Both tree planting and bosun winching are hot work for a hot day, so, come evening, I went for a nice long swim. Sue having made pizza and baked a cake, among other things, nearly beat me into the water.

To twist an old saying:

Make waves while the water’s warm.