Cloudy, Calm Morning

6:10

Monday Afternoon at 4:45

Purple Martin families

Awake early, again, but stayed in bed till 5:45, getting up to the sound of the martins.  It's overcast, though off to the east, the sun is struggling to peak through the cloud bank.  Rain, wonderful rain, is forecast for this morning, something we need badly, especially for Evie's garden.  It's warm, 60 degrees, though it's only going to get into the low 70's today, quite a difference from Sunday's record setting 89 degrees.

This is my last week of yoga, so I went yesterday morning and, too my surprise, class was crowded with three other guys, very unusual for class.  They seemed to be students or recent grads, friends of Elise, our teacher, and knew what they were doing, had obviously taken yoga classes before.  I then went for coffee, at Ryder's, picked up some plants at Walmart and was home in time for a lunch of pulled pork and cole slaw.

We spent the afternoon in the yard or out on the dock, though about 4:30 it poured for about 15 minutes, enough to flood our side yard near the kitchen window, a rain we desperately needed.  The lawn already looks greener and longer this morning as a result.  I too Evie's father's tool box, a wooden box, 4' X 1', with eight sections out of the attic and  Evie gave it a good coating of linseed to preserve it.  She then filled each pocket with dirt and potted a herb.  It looks neat and will fit in well next to garden porch.

Last evening we had originally planned to go to a birding event at the Greystone Nautre Preserve, near Bear Lake, but because of the storm's, we decided it would be too wet, so we headed off to Hadley Bay Restaurant, just beyond the bridge on this side of the lake, as it had just opened.  We sat at the bar, got to know the owner Connie, her daughter in law, Christina, the bar tender, and Steve, another bar tender.  They had a special; if you ordered a 16 inch pizza, you got 12 free wings.  So we ordered a pizza to go, ate the wings at the bar with our beers, then headed home already full though we did manage to eat some pizza.  It was quite good, in fact, one of the better pizzas we have had here at the lake.  They have not yet advertised their opening, preferring to depend on word of mouth the first week or two, getting things organized and efficient, then they will advertise, put out their sign, and see how things go.  There were about 20-30 patrons, many seemed to know either the staff or owners.  We will go back for sure.