July 24

Woke up to rain this morning.    Seems every time we come to the boat, we get a nasty storm and heavy rain!    We went to get my Dad and drove all around (the flower garden in Mom's memory, the cemetery, out in the country, etc.)    And then stopped to pick up delicious gyros and went to the park for a picnic lunch.   He really enjoyed the outing and so did Mark and I.   Took him back to the nursing home for his afternoon nap and we came back to Ottawa.   Stopped for gas and heard about the damage last night (trees down and a power line fell on 3 cars with people inside.)

Did a quick washdown of Catrina (attempting to get the bugs off which are baaaad - you would think with all the rain, it would be clean and bug-free, but that's not the case).    Felt good to be scrubbing using that shoulder.   We went to 4:30 Mass at St. Patrick's and now just enjoying a quiet evening playing Sudoku and watching TV (Mark) and reading (me).    Hope you're high and dry wherever you are....the stories from all the flooding in Chicago and Milwaukee are quite something!