It's 27 degrees out, Chautauqua gray, with freezing rain expected this morning, then as the temperature rises to the high 30's, we will have just rain. It's hard to believe it's Friday already, as the week has flown by, pretty typical for a retiree I suppose. We have an art show to attend this evening, as Judy Gregory, a friend from the CI has an opening of her work at the Rockefeller Art Center at Fredonia State College, about 25 minutes from here. We went there in the fall for a lecture by Harvard professor Howard Gardner and it was fun to be on a college campus again and the town of Fredonia has a few interesting restaurants and some more college oriented kinds of shops. It's also where we went contra dancing in the fall, so I am anxious to go back tonight, to have dinner then attend the opening of Judy's show. We got to know them about 20 years ago through my basketball, as Fred is a fanatic, still playing all over the US in 3 on 3 tournaments. We had not seen them for a long time till I ran into them this past September at the CI. We had them over for dinner, found we still had a lot in common, especially since we had retired, and went out to dinner with them one other time before they headed south to their house in Davidson, NC, an area they have found amenable, especially since it's got the college campus right there. I am not sure if they are up here for good; I doubt it as I am sure Fred will want to enjoy another month or two of warm weather in South before coming North.
We just got back from working out and it's a dreary, wet, rainy day, the kind that makes you long for the sunshine in Florida or Arizona. Most people go south to escape the winter; I think I would prefer to skip the early spring, the weather from mid March to late April, when Chautauqua is at its worst aesthetically, wet, muddy, soggy, with green just beginning to show.
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