The Navy Sea Chanters last Sunday were quite good, but they only did one sea chant. I guess all the other chants weren’t suitable for a family concert in a church.

We had a bang-up day planned for Friday. It was sunny and very hot. I took an easy bike ride on well-shaded trails. I was just about to turn around and head home when my gear shifter stopped working. The cable broke. The bike has four cables. This is the most important one. There is no such thing as a jury rig fix for a broken cable. Good thing it was an easy ride. There were a few hills I had to walk up, but it wasn’t all that bad. When I got home I drank water in the air conditioning for a while, then I removed my jury rig bike rack and took off for the bike shop. It’s almost all down hill from our house to the bike shop, but I still had to some walking to do. Danita gave me a ride home. By the time we got home and had dinner, we missed the Marine Corps band concert. After dinner, we went downstairs to watch the last of our recorded TV shows for the season. About half way through, the shows were preempted by the President’s comments following the mass shooting in Texas. We could have streamed the show, but it felt like the perfect ending for a bummer of a day. We called it quits.

Today is perfect weather — cool and sunny. Too bad I won’t be riding.

I hope this finds everybody doing well.