Have I mentioned that I love rain? I don’t really love the little leaks that can occur on a boat which are revealed by the rains. However, I do love rain. I frantically finished up several little paint/varnish projects yesterday knowing that today would be a rainy day. Now, cosy and warm inside we sit. David is futzing with something Linux-related and I’m catching up on similarly mundane things with an eclectic mix of music in the background: from Vivaldi to Jelly Roll Morton to Elton John to Sting to KD Lang to George Strait, all good listening.

On Saturday, we went to the Golden Gate park and enjoyed the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass concert there. There was an amazing mix of oldies including Merle Haggard and Earl Scruggs, but we really enjoyed hearing Hugh Laurie in person. He pulled out some really old classic blues tunes. He performed the Negro spiritual Battle of Jericho wonderfully. Awesome.

The other really great thing about Saturday was that, for the first time, I walked and walked and walked –and stood and stood– without any hip flexor pain.  That was just amazing.  I was so happy.  Still using my trusty REI trekking staff, but hey, a good walk is a good walk!