Sunny and Clear...It Feels Like a Summer Morning

6:22

Evie's Hanging Basket

Hostas

Up at 6:30 to a living room filled with sunlight, an empty lake, families of geese next door at Pine Hill's Beach, and the chirping of birds, mostly purple martins, happily creating their nests.  It looks like another beautiful spring day, perfect for almost any activity, from kayaking, to hiking, to just hanging around the house and working in the garden or cutting the lawn.  Perhaps we'll do all three.

Yesterday, probably a  carbon copy of today, was spent mostly in the yard and out on the dock for the first time this year.  Evie worked in her garden, while I made a new screen for her filtering of compost.  Later, she cut the grass, while I cleaned up the compost, moving the various sections, getting it ready for the summer.  It was a splendid day to be outside and we took full advantage of it.

Part of the morning was spent watching the tree service take down our neighbor's trees.  They lost a huge limb during the snow storm, so they took down the rest of the diseased tree. We watched a tree climber, like an acrobat, climb the tree and cut it down so efficiently our neighbor thought he could  get a job with Cirque de Soleil.  We had the boss over to look at trimming some of the dead wood out of ours but he was so expensive I am getting another quote from an Amish guy I have used before.

Big Foot Sitting on the Dock

We relaxed on our chaise lounges and read out on the dock a good part of the afternoon. Evie's into Almost, a YA novel I read and really liked.  Ironically, there was one fishing boat on the lake, docked about twenty feet off our dock!  Typical...the guy has the entire lake and he anchors off the only dock on the lake with people sitting on it.

For dinner, Evie made up a great mushroom pasta sauce.  While it was simmering, we had a glass of wine out on the dock, enjoying the quiet and the changing colors of the lake.  It's so good to be out on the dock again, just enjoying the water and view.  It's been over seven months.  We, then, enjoyed  our pasta sauce with salad and garlic bread, and watched the last episode of Smash, the story of the making of a musical in NYC.  It was an interesting series, going inside the ambitions and conflicts involved in the making of a musical, as we watch the producer, director, song writers and actors all inter acting, trying to make a successful musical.  And we finished up The Killing, a series set in Seattle.  They keep you guess until the very end, which made it fun.