Tuesday, August 16

Including some action shots of Miles' soccer practice yesterday....he's very athletic, and the coaches kind of fed him the ball. He loved it! He had his own cheering section over on our blankets. He plays in Lincoln Park, a really nice big park on Lake Michigan on the north end of the city.
He took this shot, and made the goal, btw. :)

After soccer practice, Bob and I took a walk along the lake to one of the city marinas. Nice, but kind of different. No marina office that we could find, no shower or restrooms - obviously not open to visiting boats. Seemed strange to us.....we talked to a guy who was sitting at the pumpout in his sailboat. He has a solar panel and a regulator, so Bob chatted with him about how it all worked. Apparently, Bob's considering adding a couple of solar panels to Nellie...hmmmmm. Sounds expensive.

The weather in Chicago has been really nice the past few days. Low 80's, a pretty decent breeze - no need for air conditioning. It's nice to just have all the windows open with the fresh air coming in. Although Becky's home is close to the interstate, and only a block from a pretty busy city street, there's almost no traffic noise at all. The side streets in this neighborhood are heavily treed, so it's cooler and pretty quiet - except for the construction workers across the street, where there's remodeling on a school being done. Which begs the question: when they have al most 3 full months, why do they wait until the last 4 weeks of the summer to do school construction?