Anniversary Weekend

June 27th, last weekend, was our 43rd anniversary.  Toby had planned vacation time for the Friday and Monday. Since I still have him home every day, all day long, this was not much different from the rest of our week. But for Toby, it was different. He has been working from home, but he did not have to work at all. 

In our usual Tobylou style, we did not plan ahead of time for how we were going to celebrate 43 years. We did get the Casita (the Egg) ready for camping, but we had no idea where we would go.  We thought about going to Lake of the Arbuckles or possibly Lake Elmer Thomas Recreational Area on Ft. Sill in the Wichita Mountains.  LETRA was full, and it had been our first choice. Arbuckles was more of an unknown for us. When we went to borrow kayaks from our neighbors, they told us that sometimes they camp out at Duncan Lake and that it was really nice. Since we were so wishy washy and had not planned well and we were supposed to be quarantining, we decided on Duncan Lake - about 5 miles from home. It actually worked out great. We could come home and feed animals and get all the stuff we forgot to take - like sunscreen.

The kayaks were fun, but tiring.  We have a double seat kayak that we bought years ago, but we sort of gave it to the neighbors mentioned above. They have small children and needed a kayak for hauling small kids. They wanted to buy our kayak, but we told them they could have it with the understanding that we might still want to borrow it now and then.  Eventually, they bought several more single kayaks for older kids and for kayaking individually. It was the individual kayaks that we borrowed. The wind was up the entire weekend making kayaking a little more difficult, but we went out a couple of times. Once, we went out in the early morning hours. It was beautiful and pleasant. Toby decided he wanted to try fishing (go figure!) so we went home and got fishing stuff and a fishing license (online). I decided to paint while Toby fished (taking a page from Gene and Jo). We went back out onto the lake later that evening. The wind was up and the waves were higher. Of course, Toby wanted to go across the lake (it is not a huge lake) but it was into the wind. He fished and I painted. It really was nice, but the waves rocking the boat made painting difficult. I definitely got the Impressionistic style with the rocking boat.

We had a good time. The Egg is very comfortable, but tiny.  We have reclining-type chairs that we sat outside and spent time reading and watching people.  Duncan Lake has horse trails, so lots of cowboys show up with their horses.  But you can only have so much fun, and we came home on Sunday morning. Our arms were too tired from kayaking to do any more.  Monday, Toby did lots of work around the Lazy B. I was just lazy.

Tuesday I had CTAC meetings all day - board meeting as well as several committee meetings. Today, Wednesday, is actually two weeks since Toby was exposed to Covid19. We have had no sick feelings - all is well with us. I felt that going to the meetings was okay. I sat far away from everyone and had my mask. Having several meetings in a row always fries my brain. By the time all is said and done, I can't remember what the meetings were about. 

Speaking of memory :) I have been reading older books on my Kindle. I can remember parts of them, but for the most part, it is like reading new books - ha!