Puffy Morning Clouds and Cool

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Home Made Apple Sauce

It's forty five degrees outside, the sun hidden, for now behind the cloud puffs, the lake calm, as two kayaks go by, some fishermen cast their lines off towards Wells Bay.  It's a great morning, the coolness makes me want to get up and get outside, to either walk or paddle somewhere.  I like this weather, but still want some Indian summer days, the kind where we can either cruise the lake in our boat or, perhaps, jump in the lake to cool off.

Yesterday morning we went off to Mayville, to the flea market which, when we arrived, had a sign which said See You Next Year.  Evie then suggested we go to the Crossroads market but  I mentioned there was a cool alpaca store just a few miles down the road.  So we went to it, drove in the yard, and saw a sign which said: "Gone to Crossroads Market for the day."  We then went to Westfield, to get some veggies, but found few if any that looked good.  Three failures in an hour! So we stopped at Tops, then the Lighthouse, then a veggie stand in Magnolia, and got everything we needed.

We relaxed and read, as usual, and Evie worked some in the kitchen, using her new ricer( a birthday present from me) to make homemade apple sauce, with the apples we bought from the market.  Later, I suggested we might enjoy some cookies in the evening, so she made up some lemon scented ginger almond cookies, the kind my Dad would have loved.  Around 5:00, we decided to go for a walk at Bemus, along Lake Side Drive.  We ended up talking to a woman, about mid way down the road.  She lives in the brown house, almost on the road, with a huge garage and small shed on the lake.  Her husband's family has owned this lake property since 1898 and I think she has lived in it most of her married life.  She lives alone, year round, and we wonder how she makes do in the winter as she seems frail.  A nice lady, she told us lots of history of the neighborhood.

We came home to listen to Garrison Keillor on the radio, have a mannie, and then dinner of cabbage lasagna and potato pancakes.  We watched another episode of Damages, a couple of Driver In's, Diners and Dives, one part talking about the Mulberry Italian restaurant in Lackawanna , a suburb of Buffalo, which looked amazingly good.  We may hit it on our 36 Hours in Buffalo, NY, on Tuesday and Wednesday.