Waiting for the Rain and Thunderstorms

Another beautiful morning but later today, it's going to cloud up, warm up, with rain and possible thunderstorms tonight or tomorrow, despite the fact that the lake still mostly frozen and their are snow banks around most driveways.  We hope to walk the CI this morning, taking advantage of the sun, perhaps work in the yard a bit as it's supposed to get up to 47 today, almost 60 tomorrow, then possibly snow again on Tuesday, the vagaries of April weather.

Sunrises Are Never The Same

We really enjoyed our Greek stew or stifado last night, which is very close to my other favorite, Turkish tas kebab; the stifado has a few more spices and veggies.  We watched both basketball games last night and I had mixed emotions, as I really didn't know who to cheer for in either game.  I was surprised Kentucky lost because they looked so good beating Ohio State but they didn't play their best and when that happens, you often lose.  I would love to see Butler win tomorrow, like 90 % of Americans but UConn has the horses, Butler the heart and persistence.  The horses win most of the time; let's hope tomorrow is one of those times where they don't.

We walked at CI for over an hour, cool going north, warm coming back.  The lake is unfrozen along the shore, but out ten or 15 feet, its still frozen, a huge expense of ice, which may not last much longer.  It began to cloud up as we walked and the sun and  blue sky have given way to gray but no rain yet.

A cloudy afternoon, as I sit here on my couch, sipping my Turkish tea, eating a lemon square and reading Don Winslow's THE DAWN PATROL, about a surfer PI in San Diego.  Like his previous book THE SAVAGES, there's lots of cool guys, violence, and sex though I have not gotten that far yet but it's coming as Boone Daniel has just been hired by the very hot Petra to find a missing women.  Why is it always a women?  Boone surfs early each morning with a crew of old high school buddies, each an original.

It's now 5:30, and I sit here with a mannie, was large snow flakes mixed with  rain fall on our lawn.  What bizarre weather we have here at the lake. It's 43 degrees outside yet we can see the flakes.