Saturday July 29
Our food coordinator Liz
The Cornell chicken team Bud and Randy
It was a gorgeous day but Roger’s pond was just 67 and only a few very hardy people went swimming
This was our eighth cook-out here and the property gets more and more beautiful every year — all the gardening is done by Gunilla, who’s a skilled artist and has a very artistic eye
The setting is so bucolic and serene, it takes on a slightly surreal quality every year of peace and relaxation
The chicken does give off a bit of smoke for a while during the grilling
I brought along a second camera with a portrait lens and this let me get some shots I couldn’t with my regular hiking camera
Do you remember Liz promised that I’d be making an appearance “squeezed into my bathing suit?” This is a display I agree to undergo every summer to make up for never using photos of myself in the weekly hike reports. I didn’t go into the water this year but I did pose for a candid shot:
My waist circumference, measured across my belly button and without sucking in my gut at all, was 33 3/4″ on Friday and Saturday morning. Your waist measurement compared to your height has actually become a very important health indicator for older people. My height is 70 1/2″ so I’m doing OK ….. for now ….
Our cook-outs are always wonderful — this one seemed especially nice
Our nature photographer Jack V got some shots of the cook-out but I’ll hold off linking to them until tomorrow because he’s bundled in the picnic shots with his shots from Saturday’s hike, and I’ll report on the hike tomorrow — stay tuned