Breakfast Club

Back to my routine of breakfast on Thursday's at the Bemus Point Inn with the  guys.  I am not sure who is in town, but Stan may be there, back from Florida, and Joe Johnson, a neighbor on Morley will be there for sure.  It's cold again, about 6 degrees outside, though I looked at Tommy's, and it -2 degrees.  They have had an unbelievably cold month and the kids have missed weeks, not days of school.  It looks like it warms up later in the week out there, but for now, here at the lake, it will remain cold.  At least it's a fairly clear sky, thus the cold, with a light dusting of snow last night, just enough to cover the car.

The sun actually came out this morning for a few minutes, what a miracle.  Joe Johnson and I were the only ones at breakfast this morning.  He's an interesting guy, who grew up in Jamestown, like me during the late 50's and 60's when it was a thriving downtown, went to Jamestown High, eventually came back and worked for the city as business manager during the 70's before moving to Chautauqua Institution in the 80's, where he stayed, as business manager, until he retired.  He lives about a mile away, on a small farm up on Morley Road.  He's a reader like me, and wants me to come over to his book shelf, where he let's anyone who wants take away the books he's finished.  Right now he's being treated with radiation for prostate cancer, a 38 day daily routine.  So far, things are going well.  He has two sons, another child with his second wife, Jan.  He knows the area really well, having been brought up her, is of Irish/Swedish stock and interestingly, has lots of relatives in Painesville, so we actually had a number of common acquaintances from my days at Painesville Harvey.