Sunday Almosts

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By rights, I should've lost the 160 photos I took from April 15 through last week. I was lazy about copying them off my camera, and I was lazy about plugging it into my work mac for the first time (to recharge the battery) and it didn't properly unmount, so yesterday when I tried to take photos and the camera said "0 photos" I was more than sufficiently chagrined. But: once we were home, I plugged it in, and iPhoto downloaded all 160 photos. I was still chagrined, but not nearly as sad. (I figure if I'm going to be this sad about losing the photos, I really should pay better attention to them, since some are fairly good photos. With gratitude-mixed-with-chagrin, I hope to make a photo post later this week.)

A more positive near-miss: yesterday melted_snowball, hotcabanasauce, roverthedog and I tried to go to the Toronto Islands for some sunbathing. We got there in excellent time, had a wonderful picnic, and just as we got to Hanlan Point, it started sprinkling. Which wasn't quite unexpected, given the forecast. There were impressive thunderheads to the west and north, and a friend of Tim's checked the current radar map, and it really looked like we were due for a big storm.

So we had a nice walk instead, and caught the ferry back from the main Island, getting onto the boat an hour later as it started raining for real. It was a great walk; the only down side was *all the mobs of people* who were there for dragon-boat races. None of us really enjoyed the crush on the ferry, especially roverthedog who doesn't really like masses of ankles and shoes; but we got out without being too grumpy. And we got pastries and coffee and drove home again and- surprise surprise- I didn't mow because it was raining.