A Deliciously Cool Morning on the Lake

6:06

Breakfast on the Porch

Granny and Mitch enjoying dinner

Our teenager grandson goofing around 

Cleaning Up 

Up at 5:40, to cool house, slightly lit sky over Long Point.  I got my coffee and went outside and sat on the front porch to watch the sun rise at 6:01, though it did not really appear until about 6:15, as it was hidden mostly be clouds and the horizon.   I have wondered what the time of sunrise means, where does it rise at 6:01 because it appears above the horizon here at the lake usually ten to fifteen minutes after the scheduled time.

Yesterday was our first full day with Mitch.  After I got back from kayaking, Evie took Mitch out in the kayaks to the campground, where they fed the animals and walked the grounds.  I went for a bike ride through the campground, stopped to feed the animals with them, then continued down 394 to Victoria Road and home.  We all then went swimming and worked on some of the floats, rigging up anchors, things like that.  We had wraps for lunch, and spent the afternoon reading, moving chairs so Evie could cut the lawn, swimming and relaxing around the house.

About 4:30, we went off to Reno Pottery, on the other side of the lake near Dewittville,  Mitchell has a real talent for throwing pots and has been at it for a couple of years.  We had a great visit with Jim and Pat Reno.  They have an amazing house, studio and garden and I cannot believe this was the first time we had been there.  Jim took Mitch, Evie and I though his studio, showing us all his ovens and clay or porcelain making machinery.  We then ended up talking with both he and his wife for at least a half an hour.  We also realized that he had made the chopstick bowls which Chelo had given us back in 1995 when she came to visit.  He bought this place forty years ago, a pig farm at the time, and along with his wife Pat, built the house, then the studio and the garden.  He says that both he and his wife were hippies back in the 60's, when they bought and built this house.  He didn't get the passion for throwing pots until his thirties when he realized he could make a living doing it.  For years, both of them would go around the states, setting up their pots at fairs, outdoor markets, any type of craft fair, mostly on the east coast.  They settled down four years ago in their house and most of his pottery is sold from his house or on line.  He's an interesting guy and we hit it off, probably because we started talking about Turkey and he had mentioned how much he loved his visits to Istanbul and other cities.  So we had that in common.  Outside, he has this amazing garden, with hundreds of pots of sedums, that he sells for $28.00 a piece.  You get the plant and a original pot.  He has them set on tables and in the winter, he sets them on the ground and they winter well and the pots, because they are porcelain, don't break.  He told me at this point in life, he wants for nothing, his tastes are simple, a good bottle of wine, some good food, and a bit of exercise to keep healthy.  We are going to have to have them over for dinner next fall.

We got home about 6:00 and all three of us made dinner, Mitchell was our sous chef, grating the potatoes for my famous hash browns (Mitch loved them), helping Evie with the breaded tilapia, and husking the sweet corn.  It was a lovely evening to eat out side, as it had cooled down, so we enjoyed our meal as the sun began to set.  Dinner was great, and all three of us were really hungry.  After dinner, Evie and Mitch played bean bag and I watered the garden and plants.  About 9:00, we came in for peach pie and another episode of Breaking Bad.  We all laughed quite a bit at this episode as Walt and Jesse have to get a lawyer, "Call Saul", to help spring one of their drug runners.  It's a very funny episode since they are such neophytes in the drug game.  Mitch is really beginning to like it as well.