An Overcast Sunday of Leisure

7:12

Whitney Bay Start Up

7:36

Near Snug Harbor

Soffel Wedding Party

Up at 7:15, a mostly gray sky, clouds huddles off over Bemus, about 47 degrees, with rain forecast for the day, early and late.  We had better get our kayak and hike in before the rain comes.  Right now there's some light out towards the east, though the sky is mostly gray, the lake a slate gray and placid, a few fishing boats.

I am getting tired of talking about a leisurely day lest you think we have nothing ever to do.  It's just that there's nothing we have to do; it can always, usually, be put off till tomorrow.  It was so nice yesterday morning that we jumped in our kayaks, and paddled down to Whitney Bay, passing fellow kayakers, one a woman, who lives down on Wells Bay, right next to Sandy Bottom, an avid kayaker like us.  It was an easy paddle down, a bit more challenging coming back.  There is a new house being built in Magnolia, next to the huge monstrosity of a house on Whitney, dwarfing everyone else, which was built a couple of years ago by some wealthy magnate.  It's the kind of house that never appears occupied or busy, where no one is ever on the dock or yard, yet the house could easily hold 15 to 20 people it's so large.  There are two or three other huge shells of a house that appear this way, never occupied or busy yet monstrous in size.

Because it was sunny, Evie read in the side yard, then when the wind waned, we both read out on the dock, hoping to take a boat ride.  Unfortunately, we missed our chance, the wind picked up, so we walked Bemus around 4:30, getting a glimpse of the Soffel (our neighbors) granddaughter's wedding, at their son's house on Lake Side Drive.  We walked by just as the  wedding pictures we were being taken.  Fortunately, it did not rain, though it may have been somewhat cool.  When we walked back, the wedding party and guests were all in the front yard of the Lenhart Hotel, with a chef from Forte grilling appetizers in the yard, as everyone mingled and enjoyed themselves.

We decided to have an easy dinner, our left over stir fry, just as good the next day, as Evie combined the rice with the stir fry, added an egg, and we had fried rice for dinner.  We finished up watching Damages, at last, and look forward to watching some thing else.

Time to kayak over to Long Point and go for a walk before the rains come.