Sunny Sunday

Long Point Trail

Up early, to a dark sky, though it's cleared up and the sun is shining, the blue sky filled with puffy white clouds off over Bemus Point. Evie has a kuchen in the oven, filling the house with good smells, as I sit here catching up on emails, reading the papers, and planning my day.  Not much going on, actually, finish ROOM, walk the Institute, watch Kansas play at 2:30, edit some of my Istanbul journal, and help Evie get things ready as Ron and Linda are coming over for dinner, as they head back to Pittsburgh tomorrow.

I have been thinking about all the home improvement projects that we might want to do, or must do, and it keeps adding up, to about 15,000 if we were to do everything: septic, rug, paint, auxiliary generator, and asphalt parking area.   The problem is we could get by without any of them, which makes me wonder why we want them?  Convenience? Up keep?  Probably both.  Right now, after going through another carpet store, I am ready to just say 'let's put it off till next year,'  Making a decision, deciding on a carpet and color, then deciding on a paint for the walls, and getting it done by mid June seems daunting but doable.  You just have to make some decisions and do it.

We are also planning on heading West the last couple of weeks of April, visiting Tommy and Ed and Dot in Phoenix, which truncates things a bit, making it more difficult to plan and get things done.  Or am I just rationalizing why I am losing interest in doing the carpet and painting?

We walked the CI this morning, another beautiful day, blue skies, cold and crisp in the low 20's but just right for walking though when going towards the wind, the chill was apparent; it was much nicer walking with the wind at our back, the sun in our faces.  We had the usual Sunday breakfast, three slices of bacon, toast and two fried eggs, my favorite meal of the week.  Then, Evie started getting things ready for dinner, I cleaned the porch, we made final arrangement for our tickets West, and I am now watching Virginia Commonwealth take it to Kansas in the tournament.  Tommy must be sick, shell shocked, watching this on TV.  Kansas is completely out of sync, not knowing what hit them.