Sunny Saturday and Warm

The Grass Groweth

We were awaken around 6:00 by fishing boats, roaring north and south to their sweet spots, ready for another day of fishing on the lake.  The sun was brilliant, over Long Point, the lake gleaming in its wake. Because we got about a half hour of rain yesterday, I didn't have to water  but it looks like I will be back out there later today, as I see some of the ground drying up.  But, the lawn seems to coming along quite well, as you can see, so my constant watering helps.

I rode my bike yesterday afternoon through a very busy Bemus Point, into and around Long Point Park, a great ride, not to warm, the woods cooling, the main street shade by trees.  It took me about an hour to make the loop back to the bridge where I park.  When I returned, Evie was playing scrabble next door with Kathy Leonard, a great afternoon to sit outside in the shade and watch the sun begin to wane.  As a surprise, I bought her, from Amazon of course, thin, aluminum bud vases, five of them, about ten inches high, a half inch in diameter.  They have aluminum bases, are magnetized, so they stand up straight and strong, really cool and she loved them.  The girls will love picking flowers and organizing them in the aluminum towers.

We had portabello pizzas last night, something new but tasty.  You take large marinated portabellos, bake them in the oven until tender, about a half an hour, then take them out to cool.  When we were ready to eat, Evie covered them lightly with tomato sauce, some garlic spinach, made ahead, then some grated Romano, then tomatoes, then some mozzarella's and a bit more Romano.  Flip them in the oven until the cheese begins to melt and they are ready to eat.  Tasty, healthy and filling, with garlic toast and salad.  We also watched a movie I had been waiting to see, BARNEY'S VERSION, a film based on a Mordecai Richter novel.  A quirky love story, some interesting characters, a complicated, love crazed Barney, as we follow his early years in Rome, where he marries impulsively a women he hardly knows, who commits suicide, to his return to Montreal, his marriage, his falling in love with another women at his wedding(yes), through his divorce, his remarriage, his infidelity to Mariam, to her divorcing him, to his gradual decline in to dementia.  Sounds like a 'feel good' movie!  An interesting movie but one I just wanted to get over with by the end, as we knew things were not going to get any better.