Another day well lived.....

7:54 am - Monday - June 5th - LPG&RVR -  64° F, humidity 51%, wind 1 mph out of the north by northeast......mostly sunny today with a forecast high of 82° F.  On this date in 2021 TLE and I were in Newport, OR having breakfast at 'The Coffee House'.....nothing like a large, clear mug of Americano coffee to go along with a view of the Yaquina Bay Bridge......↴

I remember looking at the clock in our bedroom Sunday morning, and it read 7:01 am.  As I dropped off to sleep once again I was thinking how nice it was to have slept in until 7 am.  The next thing I knew it was 8:30 am....wait, what? I do not remember sleeping in that late for quite a long time.  It is sooo quiet here, even at 8:30 am in the morning, that it is easy to sleep in as long as your curtains are closed.  We awoke to a brilliantly blue sky day with a promised high temperature of 81° F.  For first time in a few weeks no heaters were activated....how nice.  Of course, no heaters in the morning portends warmer days, and I'm not quite ready for really warmer days.  Thankfully, the temps will drop back into the 60's and 70's over the next 15 days, so the warmer weather seems to be being kept at bay for now....

....much cooler temps are in store, but do you notice all that rain in the forecast?  Pretty much every day through the 14th....not at all like last year.  Once we got into June I don't think it rained again until late July, or early August.

I took my Haibike SDURO e-bike out for another loop ride around the golf course, and felt very strong, especially on the climbs, of which there are several.  One note of clarification, while this is an e-bike with 'pedal assist' I only use assist level 1....it has 5 assist levels, each one more robust than the prior.  Level 1 simply makes this 65 lb. bike feel like a 22 lb. bike, which is what my former Intense 5.5 weighed.  Upon completing my ride I took a look at the Strava statistics, and was pleased to see that while I felt quite strong during the ride, I was actually riding quite strongly......I had knocked a full 2 minutes off my previous best time for this loop.....

.....other than the loop ride, I didn't leave the site the rest of the day.  TLE and I watched a lot of the final round of the Memorial Tournament (Jack Nicklaus' annual tournament), which ended up going to extra holes with two golfers (Denny McCarthy and Viktor Hovland) tied at 7 under par.  Denny McCarthy had held a two stroke lead from about the 7th hole until the 16th hole when Viktor sank a long birdie putt to pull within one stroke, then another long putt on 17 to save par.  Denny then bogeyed the 18th dropping him into the aforementioned tie.  Viktor won the first sudden death playoff hole to win the tournament.  At the beginning of the day there were 40 golfers within 5 strokes of the leader who was Rory McIlroy, but he melted down over the remaining holes to end up at 3 under par.  

TLE had me grill a couple of salmon steaks on the Sea-B-Que for an alfresco dinner to which she added sides of grits, and Corn Maque Choux.  After dinner we remained outside on the 'lower deck' to play a game of 'Phase 10'.  The last two times we played 'Phase 10' TLE won handily...they were not even close.  On this night we both entered the final Phase tied, but I led her with the fewest points by about 30 points.  We both managed to complete the 10th Phase successfully, but I still led her by the aforementioned 30 points, so I won the tie breaker....

....sure, it was a squeaker, or in baseball parlance it would be the equivalent of a 'bloop single'.....as Vin Scully used to say, "it may have been a bloop single, but it will look like a line drive in the box score"....lol.  As we played we could see the sky darkening with water laden clouds, and could hear thunder rumbling in the distance.  The rain finally came around 9 pm, but didn't last long. 

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