An Early Saturday Morning Drizzle

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It's the autumnal equinox, as poet Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt wrote: "It is the summer's great last heat, / It is the fall's first chill: they meet."  The amount of daylight equals the amount of night.  It's 54 degrees outside, lots of heavy dark clouds off towards Long Point, not a boat on the lake.  Rain seems to be the story for today, for most of the weekend.    Highs today in the sixties, the same the next few days.  

We did have a wonderful fall day yesterday, so good we had to leave early morning, to paddle across the lake to the Long Point Marina, an easy cruise across the calm lake.  Three or four fisherman were wading in the water off of Long Point. an unusual sight this early on a Friday morning.  We walked up through the grove of Black Locust trees, to Lake road, then walked down it to Bemus.  We stopped by the boathouse which was turned into a house a few years ago, to talk with a Howard Nipes, a 76 year old curmudgeon, who was working on the house as it's for sale.  An interesting guy, a builder, he knew lots about the owner, about the house, and he talked quite a bit about the state of America, a topic most retired people have quite a bit to say.  We enjoyed talking with him, and he even took us for a tour of the house.  I am not sure of the price; we guess around 300,000, with 110 feet of lake frontage.  The view from the living room feels like you are living on a boat, as you are ten feet from the water's edge.  We got home around noon, after a rough paddle home, as the wind and lake had kicked up, making it a struggle to get back to Woodlawn

We had a few projects for the afternoon; for me, I worked on the garage, putting things in the attic which we no longer needed and, of course, I did some reading much of the afternoon.  Evie cut the lawn and made a cabbage lasagna for dinner, cabbage with spiced ground beef and tomato sauce.  With mashed potatoes, it made a great dinner, just what we wanted on a cool evening.  We watched a few episodes of the fourth season of Damages, with Glenn Close, and have found it a bit boring, as it has moved from NYC to a troubled ex marine who has worked for a company like Blackstone, a military outfit who protects US citizens.  It just does not ring true, full of cliches,  but we will continue to watch, hoping it gets better.