Last Thursday we made the call to delay our ‘fire and water’ festival until

September . We decided to do that because the projected weather over this weekend was supposed to be rainy and windy through Tuesday due to a tropical storm . The weather service was predicting more than an inch of rain and 2 foot or more waves . We figured that would not be ideal for transporting or burning he pieces we made for the event . Even so … a few of us , gizzo, rebar, newt and me decided we’d camp anyway .. we wanted to go into to the teeth of the storm’

Well…

As often happens, the weather we got wasn’t the weather we expected . We paddled out the 3.5 miles from hero’s welcome on north hero .. there were a few sprinkles but mostly it was beautiful