Activate jealousy mode
Friday, August 19, 2011 at 4:36PM You might hate me a little bit by the time this post is over.
Not only do I get to make cool stuff professionally, but this is the view less two blocks from the place where I get to make cool stuff professionally.
Also? It is 78 degrees Fahrenheit. (Because the weather is so beautiful, I'll even do the conversion for you Celsiophiles: 26.)
There is a refreshing breeze, which stirs up the lake bottom, creating the subtle color striations in the water. A refreshing breeze also means low humidity.
Sadly, I can't use the phrase, "Not a cloud in sight," because, well, there is a little cloud there.
For those of you trapped in a cube somewhere, I'm sorry that we have seven miles of lakefront walking and biking trails, which also run from the place I get to make cool stuff professionally to the quirky old house where I get to make nifty stuff just for fun.
I'm sorry that we have a cool brewery, too. And that it's right on the lake.
Just to add insult to injury, the view facing away from Lake Superior is verdant. Beckoning.
So, go ahead and make fun of us for being hypothermic and for having to travel by dogsled nine months out of the year, that's your prerogative. But as of today, August 19? I'll take diamonds on the water, breezy warm air, trees in full leaf, a chocolate malt, and a chocolate lab.
Before I return from my lunchbreak and go back to making cool stuff professionally.
Reader Comments (13)
Your blog activates my jealousy mode on a regular basis...but just this once, I must say, it didn't. Probably because I now live on the gorgeous Puget Sound, it's 79 deg and completely cloudless, and I just saw Mt. Rainier. Oh, and when I get back home, I'll be professionally making some cool stuff too. ;-)
I'm inside in 68 degrees (for me: COLD.), which is preferable to the humid-and-sticky 104 degrees outside, and I'm reading medical books instead of novels. But I don't know how anyone could hate you, even a little bit.
You have just combined my happy childhood memories, stunningly beautiful lake pictures (Lake Superior colorway please!!!), and a lovely shot of Ms. Horsedog into one blog post. I might need to go lie down now.
OH!! All these pictures make me want to come home to Duluth!! I have been too all the places in the pictures!!! You are such a tease!
enjoy the beautiful weather...because I also remember the Duluth Winters :)
Carmel
I have most of that here on the central west Florida coast too... the only thing that I am truly jealous of is the fact that your high today was only 78... my low tonight won't get the gloriously low. I so was not made to be a Floridian - curse my husband and his lizard like tendencies!
oh, this gives me a glimmer of hope down here in Maryland - lol the cooler air has to come further down eventually! Great pictures. I keep thinking I need to visit the Great Lakes - beautiful!
Ah, me. I do love Duluth. We honeymooned and have vacationed on the north shore many times. It is always beautiful.
Love the horsedog picture - she looks so innocent!
Beautiful colors in your landscape "up there"
margieinmaryland
79 degrees in August?! Wow, can't imagine. ;-)
Is there a lake Superior colorway? I think there should be one because the lake is just gorgeous!
Beautiful.
We must all count ourselves very lucky that our Yarnista is so dedicated that even a perfect day can not keep her away from work.
But the mosquitoes. . . ! Yeah, definitely jealous about the 78 degrees, especially with our 98.4 today. But talk to me in February. Please? :) Sounds like a lovely afternoon!