Idyllic.......

8:20 am - Sunday - July 30th - LPG&RVR - 64° F, 25% humidity, wind 3 mph out of the south.....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today....air clarity is remarkable.....forecast high is 91° F.  With such low humidity, and it will get lower as the day evolves, it does not feel at hot as 91° F.  The 15 day forecast shows temps ranging from the low 80's to the low 90's......↴

.....could it be that we have unwittingly slipped over the hump of summer heat, and are now sliding, inexorably toward Fall?  One can only hope...lol! This time last year the temp was 101° F.

On this date in 2012 TLE and I were in Long Beach, WA on the Olympic Peninsula....it is truly one of the longest continuous beaches in the world.......↴

Saturday was just another one of those idyllic days here at LPG&RVR.  As has become our 'renewed ' 4 day weekend custom, we arose before 7 am, dressed, and took a walk out to Jess Valley Road and back.  This walk first captured my heart, and soul last year, and continues to do so....every time we walk this route it feels like the first time......

......sharing this walk with someone you love, and who also equally appreciates this life we have chosen, and share just magnifies the experience.  I am sure I am no different from anyone else who had a vision of what their life might look like 50+ years after meeting their soulmate.  That it turned out even better than I had envisioned takes my breath away.  The happiness I feel when we walk together, sometimes chatting, sometimes in silence, taking in this expansive, ever changing view is overwhelming at times, and I find myself getting lost in the moment.  It is so rare to find someone with whom to share your life, who is always on the same page as you, through thick and thin, the highs, the lows. To be sure, Elaine and I have been through all of that, but through it all we faced it all together....faces forward into the wind.....moving forward.....no recriminations....no regrets.

After our walks we sit on the 'lido deck' cooling down from the walk often talking about our plans, or no plans for the day.  As I sit there I put in the final details of our walk in to my Strava program, then save it.....

......after finishing my latest missive TLE and I watched parts of 3 Women's FIFA World Cup matches, then I headed over to the Clubhouse to spend time working on hitting my fairway woods (3, 5 & 7).  It is currently the weakest part of my game.  In all I hit two small buckets of balls, finishing with hitting 5, or 6 balls with my driver.  By the end of an hour I felt like I had made progress, and had figured out what I was doing wrong.

We both attended the weekly putting contest, and I managed to make it to the 3rd round before being eliminated.  Win, or lose, it is always a great time, and I wouldn't miss it for anything.  I've talked TLE into entering next week.  She has been working quite hard on getting used to her new putter, which she loves more by the day.

The evening was so delightful that we ate our taco salad on the 'lower deck', and followed that up with a game of Phase 10.  There were no mosquitoes.....there was a cool, light, balmy breeze that perfectly complimented the 'Classic Vinyl' (channel 26, XM Radio) music playing the background, and the cigar in my hand.  I managed to come from way ahead of TLE (I was up 3 phases at one time) to lose on the final hand.....doh!  She is good!  We headed inside around 8:45 pm.....what a beautiful, idyllic day spent with my best friend, and the love of my life.

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