I actually had a really great plan for Fourth of July. I live about an hour away from a yacht club where I do sailing and they had a whole bunch of activities planned for the weekend.  So I just decided to spend the weekend there. I slept on the  boat, which had an AC unit.  It was very comfy, and it's way better than driving an hour home and an hour back every day.  So on Friday night, they had different tents spread out, and it was outside and they had different drinks and snacks that you could try, and I guess it was like a little competition and that was a lot of fun. Saw lot of friends and since it was outside, you know, we were able to keep our distance a little bit, which was fine.  I did have my mask for the weekend and inside the yacht club you had to wear it when you're not sitting down and so I wore my mask at various times throughout the weekend.

I kind of feel a responsibility to be productive.  It's kind of in some ways that it’s a subset of what I've seen people talking about with quarantine like they feel like with all this free time, whether they're working or not, just being home or whatever, they feel like with the free time, they should be making productive use of that time. You know, I feel that a little bit, you know, all this free time should be working out, should be cleaning, should be catching up with friends, should be writing, should be practicing guitar. You know, whatever -- whatever it is for the particular person.

So I'm currently recording from Grand Mere beach. It's the beach I frequent all the time since growing up. But unfortunately in the last two years erosion has pretty much destroyed the beachfront. It used to be a very large beach, with walking trails to get to it. So it was very secluded, but unfortunately because the shoreline is destroyed boats are just kind of encroaching closer and closer, making it difficult and pretty dangerous to swim here. So hopefully they will restore it back to the way it was, but just in the last, again, two years, it's been -- it's pretty much, it's not a touristy beach and it's difficult to swim and also access. We have a little shoreline to kind of lay a towel down on but it's still a lovely day and so you can see even though the quarantine's still kind of in effect, I'm still choosing to go out. The gyms are still currently closed, so I don't have a means to swim. I'm used to swimming about twice a week and I don't have a pool to do that in at the gym. So I figured the beach would be a good alternative. Normally because there's so many tourists that come from, Illinois, Indiana to South West Michigan, I would never think to go to the beach on a weekend, but because of COVID, there has been limited tourism this year; and so therefore I actually can get a spot at the beach.