Truly summer weather now, hot and humid, with stunning blue skies, just the way we like it. Perfect beach weather.

The Beach

We are fortunate to have as our guest for a few days, all the way from Portland, a Librarian of the Oregon Symphony, and while we enjoy good food and drink and beach ambiance on a daily basis, this has afforded us the opportunity to turn up the volume a little. Home-made Cuban sandwiches for lunch yesterday, a nap, then margaritas and snacks, including home-made pimento cheese, followed by a lovely dinner and stimulating conversation last night on the back deck under lights strung in the trees, made sweeter by samples from the garden a few feet away. An egg/cheese pie for breakfast this morning, then down to the beach, where we were joined by our son for a spirited surf session in chest high, heaving waves in spectacular, clear green water. Exhausted, it was back up to the little hacienda for barbecued beef sandwiches and home-grown, home-made green mango salsa and another nap. Enjoying a brief lull now to dispatch this post. We are expecting son and The Baby later this afternoon for more beach play, and then a clams and linguine dinner.

Worn out from it all, Pico has sought cool and quiet on the tile under the table.