Bass Boat Sunny Morning

6:10

6:12

Both Evie and I were awakened around 6:00 as the bass boats next door started their motors, off for a day of fishing.  There were at least 13 boats next door, the bass tournament on Sunday.  It looks like today may be nice, some sun, though it's foggy off towards Bemus, the temperature right now is 59º, a high only in the low 70's, like a fall day.

Foggy Thursday 

Windy, Wet, and Wild Afternoon

Yesterday was a windy and wet, the lake so choppy during the afternoon that the boats next door rarely ventured out to the lake till around 5:30, when things calmed down.  So it was a good day for yoga, lots of women, one older guy like me, a good class.  When I got home around 11:30, Evie had left me a note to say she had gone off with the neighborhood ladies, to a estate sale, in Jamestown.  So I relaxed, made my lunch, watched some TV and read.  She got home around 1:30, having spent $1.86 on a few kitchen items, one a hand held potato masher, the other, a tote bag.  They had a good time, of course, and Evie almost bought a chair, our neighbor Joyce a table.  In fact, both Joyce and Pat are going back this morning to see if some items are still available.  They did stop at a butcher/grocery store friends had recommended in Jamestown, called Fresh Cut Meats and More, Inc, at 631 Newland Avenue, just off of the Baker Street Extension.  They all really liked the store; they have fresh veal among other goodies, and Evie came home with enough city chicken for dinner for all of the ladies, so we had a full house for dinner, the Leonards and Pat Jones.  It sounds like store worth going back to, and Pat is picking up five pounds of ground veal this morning.

The Leonards

Enjoying the Neighbors

So the afternoon, for Evie, was spent getting dinner ready for our neighbors.  She breaded and fried the city chicken, not your small drum sticks that I remember from my childhood, but large chunks of veal and pork on a stick.  She also put together twice baked potatoes, roasted some asparagus and cauliflower, heated up some pumpkin rolls, to go along with the city chicken.  Joyce brought apple sauce, and Pat brought ham balls (ground ham and pork) from the butcher shop, and made a maple flavored sauce.  Everyone came around 6:00, and it was a nice night, the sun had  finally resurfaced.  We had beers and appetizers, then dinner around 7:00.  Everything tasted great, the city chicken and ham balls, the hits.  I really liked the ham balls, to be honest, a combination of sweetness and ham, like a ground up honey baked ham.  We had Turkish tea and two kinds of Pat's cookies for dessert and everyone went home around 9:30, a fun night at the lake with our neighbors.

City Chicken

It's nice to have neighbors who you enjoy, who enjoy you.  In many neighborhoods these days, people stay in their homes and nobody sees each other.  Woodlawn, fortunately, is not like that as the last two nights suggest and tomorrow, we are having a Woodlawn picnic at our house, a gathering of people from the Woodlawn neighborhood.