Sunday, 2 June 2019: Green Bay

We decided that we were tired of watching our property fall into the bay so we went into Green Bay to work on our daytime drinking.  The Creamery, downtown on City Dock, has a bottomless mimosa! We'd talked about going for a while so today was the day.

Cousin Jim reports that "water is in the club house."  The Balduci family cottage is near St Louis on the Mississippi.  In Wisconsin, we’ve had the highest rain fall in the last twelve months in recorded history — 125 years or so.  Jeez!!!  Carole, in Toronto, reports that the water is so high there they can't put boat in so no sailing there yet.  

We have three hummingbird feeders going this summer but when we saw orioles trying to raid those feeders we thought we better try something for them too.  We bought cheap grape jelly and the orioles were happy.  They are so brilliantly colored!

So it seems that as an ice shove broke up this winter the movement rearranged the  course of our little creek and built a dam at the end of our marshland.  There is probably only a foot difference now between the bay and the creek but Justin’s continues to try to clear it out.  

We are seeing the stone, gravel, rock and sand as Justin has been trying to dig it out. The work song from Les Miserables has constantly been going through my mind. “Look down, look down... your standing in your grave...”. I’ve been calling Jean Val Jean.  

Justin said he was adding new meaning to “draining the swamp.”

For the beginning of June, it is still quite cold.  The south is experiencing record highs and we are still “unseasonably cool” (read COLD).