It started wet this morning. We drove into Vineyard Haven to get our breakfast from the Black Dog bakery (wonderful donuts), and in the 10 minutes or so we were in there, the puddles outside went from, you know, puddles, to ankle-deep rivulets lining the street. Just running back across the street to the car, my feet got soaked. (Thank heaven for those handknit, wool socks, huh?)

We moved the car over to Ocean Park in Oak Bluffs and ate our breakfast to the sound of raindrops on the roof. I took this picture while we were sitting there. One thing about this ever-changing weather–it’s making for some really dramatic skies.

Little by little, though, the day got drier. We browsed and walked around Vineyard Haven, got some lunch (we split a lobster roll), and came back to the room to relax for a while. Then, back to Edgartown around 4:00 . . . most of our favorite restaurants for dinner are there, so we usually end up there at the end of each afternoon.

And that, of course, is when the sun came out. Clearly, we should be spending more of our time in Edgartown, because so far, we have had the best weather there, by far, than anywhere else on the island.

Tomorrow’s weather? It’s actually looking pretty good. Not perfect, but they’ve used this odd word that I had to look up in the dictionary–”sunshine.” Anyone else (in New England, anyway) ever hear of this stuff?

I haven’t been getting much knitting done–I’ve barely started my Green Gables, haven’t touched the Peacock Stole, but I have worked away at the little socklette in my purse. I know, I’ve said I don’t really like self-patterning yarns, but I bought this Sockotta because its colors would go so well with my pink-and-orange sneakers, which really must be worn with socks. So, this is destined to be a little anklet of a sock, and it gave me something to do while Mom was getting tonight’s dinner.

It’s not, after all, like Chappy was a whole lot of company while we waited.

Now, if only he would eat his breakfast in the mornings….

Oh, the biggest disappointment of the trip? My brand-new Creative Zen Micro Photo MP3 player? It completely lost its memory yesterday. I turned it on, the screen said, “Rebuilding Media Library” and when it was done . . . absolutely nothing in the memory at all. No songs. No albums. No playlists. No Organizer data . . . thank heaven I thought to (1) bring addresses for postcards on paper, instead of relying on the Zen and (2) decided to bring the Harry Potter audio CDs in the car “just in case.” Sheesh.

And here, to end for the day, a couple more pictures. The first sky picture? Mom and I thought the clouds looked like a waterfall…

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