And so it was today. Those of us who were supposed bo be working today did our best. The beach urchin did better than I did. That is all I will say.

At the end of the day, the Party Bus came into town. They disembarked, swam, kayaked, and paddle-boarded for a half hour or so and then took off. Blasting their music on the way in and out.

I can only laugh at this, remembering my own youth. My second high school boyfriend (he was actually in college when I started going out with him) would come out to pick me up on dates in his little green Gremlin (The Commander once called it the sprite…). Almost nobody in the yooperland had vehicular AC in those days. When he came to pick me up, his windows were wide open and his 8-track tape player was blaring whatever, often Focus’s Hocus Pocus. We could hear him coming from the turn down at the “pond”.

I didn’t know anything about the music the Party Bus was playing but I was into their vibe.

Of all things, when I first met the GG, he was ALSO driving a Gremlin. His was purple and another thing he was was doing when I met him was cooking a can…

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