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We are experiencing a bit of a cold spell! It's teen the 40s at night for the past few nights, and today is June 1st! Surely it cannot last much longer but it's made it hard to use the pool because the water is cold and the weather is also cold.

Sofia got in it with a friend a few days. The current water temperature drops to the mid 60s or ever close to 60 which is freezing. The heater pumped it up to 72 when Sofia went it, which is barely tolerable. I would definitely not go in!

I am sure it won't be much longer. In the meantime, the pool looks very nice!

Testing the "craft ice clear ice spheres" on the new fridge. It can only make 3 per day if you want them to be "clear ice", very interesting and slow process. It can make 6 per day if you don't care about clear ice. They are a good size, suitable for specialty cocktails, very nice.

Our kitchen fridge gave up this week. I did not realize it was 14 years old, and finally the compressor stopped working. That is better than the JenAir we had in our apartment in NYC years ago that died up just 7 years. We currently have a Samsung that is still going strong.

A new LG was delivered this week to our house. It has nice modern styling, and nice interior lighting. The best feature is the craft ice capability: it makes 4 different types of ice, including clear spheres, very cool. It is model LRYXC2606S.

A few pictures I found on my last trip to see my mom in April in Spain. Fun shots with my brother and other friends and family, in Igualada but also at the La Pineda beach apartment. So nostaltic.