Wet, Gray, Snow Flurries

Last hiking of the snow trails of Long Point

Another cloudy gray morning (actually shades of gray clouds on gray) and when I walked outside this morning at 6:00 to get the paper, wet snow flurries filled the air as it was beginning to get colder after yesterday's high in the 60's. The lake is increasingly unfreezing, as I can see water half way over to Long Point, just huge floes of ice remain in both directions.  We could easily kayak today, the first day it would be possible in or area, if the weather cooperated.  When you are retired, I suppose you have more time to pay attention to things like the sky, the precipitation, the colors of the lake and sky, and temperature.  Perhaps because you have nothing else to do, perhaps because it interests you, perhaps because you never paid much attention to it before.  For me, it's most likely all three.

Smith Library at the Chautauqua Institution

We watched UConn defeat Butler last night, as I expected, though it was a terrible night for both teams; instead of both playing well, neither did and the result was a game hardly worth watching, as shot after shot clanged off the rim, until finally a few UConn players were able to hit a few to take the lead. UConn so dominated the boards and paint that Butler hardly had a goal within ten feet of the rim.  Every time they tried, their shots were rejected.  The amazing thing about the game was the fact that many of mainstays on both teams were freshmen, unheard of ten years ago, even one year ago.

We spent much of the morning looking at colors for our living room/dining room/kitchen at three different stores and ended up not much closer to picking a color.  We want something a bit richer than what we have, linen white, but most of the colors are too much color, not enough light.  We think we need something bright and lively and are afraid of some of the colors that look great in our kids homes but maybe not in ours because we have so little wall space, mostly windows.  We just got back from working out at Turner, took showers there, and are ready for a mannie, some dinner, maybe a movie or the NCAA women's final.  I think last night was enough basketball for awhile though the NBA playoffs are a couple of weeks away and often go into mid June, alas.

It is amazing to see water moving on the lake after months of ice and snow; I assume fishermen will be out the weekend, fishing for crappies, perch, and pan fish.  It's been just above freezing most of the day, even cooler tonight, and we always have the possibility of snow flurries.  I am sure some areas got an inch or two last night though it's melted by now.