Evie's Diner...Closed Till Summer

Breakfast with the Guys

Long Point, Early Morning

Common Redpoll

Up early, to an empty house (Evie's still sleeping but no guests), a streak of creamsicle over Wells Bay. A few guys are out already fishing and two snow mobiles have just roared by, exiting at Wells Bay and it's only 7:20.  Are they going to work?  Returning from a wild night?  I have seen them before.  It's 24º, warming up to the thirties later.  When I go out side for the newspaper, I hear the songs of various birds, a sure sign that spring is coming, just not this week.

7:20

Photo From Long Point

The guys left for Cleveland yesterday about 12:30.  Evie was up early, as was I, and we relaxed, as usual, till about 8:00 when Dick and John got up.  Then, Evie went to work, preparing our amazing breakfast, of original Belgium waffles, with pearl sugar, an omelette, with tomatoes and bacon, and onion rye toast.  We shot the breeze for an hour until breakfast, around 10:00, as no one was in a hurry.  Stan came over at 9:00, so there were four of us for breakfast and it was just like  going off to a diner, only better.  We sat around eating and talking, mostly about the good old days, what else, growing up in East Cleveland, for Johnny and Stan, Euclid for Dick and me.  Evie put oldies on the Sirius, mostly Frank Sinatra, Frankie Vallie, Nat King Cole, the kind of tunes that Johnny loves.  We also talked about how lucky we have been with our lives; who would have thought fifty years ago we would be sitting here, having great families, retired, enjoying our children and grandchildren and we are all in our seventies, except me! All of us  have done quite a bit of traveling, something we never would have believed when we were  growing up in an insular communities, where everyone seemed to stay in their hometown.  I was the first to break the code, flying off to Hawaii when I was twenty four, then Turkey, when I was twenty seven.  Both Johnny and Stan stayed in either the Ohio or Western New York areas.  Dick followed me to Hawaii and lived in a Los Angeles for fifteen years, trying to make it as an actor.  But the guys have traveled quite a bit, Johnny to Italy, where he has lots of relatives and Stan to Ireland and England, to play golf, of course.

After my buddies left, we relaxed, tried to get back to normal, which is always difficult, as we are always hyper after company.  We did get in a walk around the CI, slippery and slushy for the most part, but it felt good to be out in the cold, after being in the house all day.

Our New No Parking Sign

We had an easy dinner as the diner was closed for the evening, leftover Chicken Marbella and shrimp with noodles, both still tasty.  We watched some TV, The Good Wife, a couple episodes of The Killing, read, and went to bed, tired from our busy weekend.