Sitting on my balcony getting buzzed by hummingbirds that apparently like my red ballcap. When the weather is nice I like to watch the sunrise from here.

Canoeing went well, had gorgeous weather, although we couldn't go very far before running into beaver dams and logjams, one after another. In past years we would've kept going but my friend Dave can't do a lot of heavy lifting anymore. Saw turtles, ducks, a pair of geese that tried to honk us back upriver, a noisy great blue heron. Lots of redwing blackbirds. Will go back when there's high water, and maybe we can get through to the next road.

Will put the action mechanism I've been working on back into its piano today to see how things sound. I've learned a lot working on this thing the past week and a half. Spinets, the subcompact version of a piano, are especially difficult because everything is behind something else and hard to get to.

I will stop in and say hi at the Bible study but continue on to the piano. Our church has decided we don't have enough overweight people, so they added coffee and doughnuts on Sunday to the pastries on Tuesdays. Ughhh.

Bill, I hope they can quell your digestive issues. Sam, good news the knee is feeling spunky. Dave, keeping you and your family in my prayers.

l am mulling over joining an online weight loss program that starts tomorrow.