Hottest April, whose pants are these?

April is the cruellest month, breeding
lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.......
T.S. Eliot The Wasteland 1922

I do not know if this April was the cruelest, but it seems that April 2010 was the hottest month ever on record. I did not notice its hotness. We had some very hot days but the impression of oppressive heat did not register on my internal thermometer. I checked with Kevin Grogan, our weather barista, and he confirms it was indeed the hottest ever recorded in Central Park.
http://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=NWS&issuedby=OKX&product=RER

A clue to the higher temps was that Liam was out a lot. He loves the outdoors and he began chasing, sniffing and resting on the lawn early and often this April.
The last week in April might have proved to be just too hot for some. Early in the week I discovered a pair of shorts draped over a chair in our back yard. Now I thought the shorts might belong to "The Ultimate Chimney Company"who had cleaned our gutters on Monday, April 26. Or maybe to our Lawn service. I mulled over my course of action. Should I ask who left their shorts in my yard? Was this opening me up to uncomfortable suspicion? Would the question reflect negatively on one of the service people? I decided to send an email to the gutter cleaning folks since they would not be returning. The lawn team comes by on Tuesdays and would see the shorts again, and pick them up, had they left them. So I sent a note.

Thanks for your wonderful service on Monday April 26, 2010. We found a pair of blue shorts on the chair in the back yard -was wondering if they were left that day.
We were thinking it was either your team or our gardener's-we noticed on Wednesday.

Carol McNiff

No reply yet, I hope I have not been crossed off their client list for shorts stealing or that their service guy has been fired for leaving his shorts (in the hottest month of April ever).

Then on Friday April 30, last day of the hottest April ever, we drove out to Bayville for lunch. Bayville is located on the Long Island Sound and is the site of our wedding reception, which was in April, 1982. While we sat outside on the deck on Wall's Wharf http://www.wallsbeach.com/ We noticed another abandoned pair of pants. What is going on with folks leaving their pants/shorts? These had boots attached. Seems the owner was inside the restaurant having anchored his boat just offshore. He had taken off his boot/pants to enter the restaurant. So his lost pants would have a reunion later.
As we enjoyed the view of Long Island Sound, a woman and her dog strolled by, a Liam look alike. Paul and I both agree that Liam is not a beach dog and the north shore rocks and shells would bother his feet so we felt okay that we had left him home alone. Liam loves grass. He would not have gone near the water. We assume the ship's captain reclaimed his pants after he finished his lunch.
We still have an unclaimed pair of shorts.

Liam outside enjoying the hot April, no shorts, no boots, no bodies of water just a hot lawn and warm sun

Woof, woof

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