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| Kayak Morning with Tommy |
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| 6:40 |
Awake at 5:30 but I stayed in bed, 'tossing and a turning' till 6:40. It's a cloudy morning, though the sky off to the south, around Bemus, has a swath of pink and blue. Not a boat on the lake that I can see, a slight southerly wind, and only the cawing of the obnoxious crows mar the early morning. It's cool, 57º, so I have my sweats, fleece, and Ugg boots on, as I sit comfortably on my front porch, waiting for the day to begin (when the girls rise). Yesterday they slept in until 9:30 and last night, when I went to be at 11:00, they were still awake though they were in bed by 10:00, typical I suppose for a sleep over.
Yesterday was another cool, fall like day on the lake, with intermittent sun and clouds. I was up early, able to get my blog written and published before anyone got up. When Tom woke, we went for a nice kayak ride about 8:00 and by the time we got back, about 9:30, the girls were awake up in their bedrooms, laying in bed, surfing the net on their Itouch's and Ipads, a leisurely way to spend a Sunday morning. Evie made Tom and me a feta cheese omelet and bagel and then, because the girls wanted waffles, she made them as well, my favorite, so both Tom and I also had waffles.
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| New Purses at Dart Field Flea Market |
After breakfast, we decided to go to the Flea Market in Mayville, at the Dart Airport. It was in the middle of a field with about twenty vendors, a small showing but enough for all the kids to get excited about some junk jewelry and other things. The three girls ended up buying a couple of purses and some bracelets, happy to buy anything, a form of therapy. We stopped at a new bar/restaurant in Mayville, called the Boardwalk, with a chain saw sculptor in their parking lot, a typical combination here in the boonies of Chautauqua County. The bar/restaurant is enormous, the old Ethan Allen building, with various table seatings, pool tables, darts, a bar and a walk up window to order your food. It looks like it could hold two or three hundred people but there were only two sitting by the food window. They have a band on either Friday or Saturday night and if crowded, it could be fun.
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| Dancing the Afternoon Away |
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| Cousin Love |
We came home for a lunch, ate outside, chicken sandwiches, pizza, and P & J sandwiches, a combination to fit all tastes. At 2:30, I took off, driving Tom to Buffalo to catch his plane at 5:00. We made good time, an hour an a half on the dot, and I stopped at Dick's on the way home, for 15 minutes, though I did not buy anything. I got home at 6:00 and the girls were sitting on the front porch, wrapped in blankets, with Evie, reading and eating Cheeze It's, enjoying the cool dusk, after a busy afternoon. They practiced their dance routines in the front yard before swimming mid afternoon, the water cold when they first went in but then they warmed up and had a good time jumping from one raft to another.
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| A Cosy Reading Corner |
For dinner, we had baked potatoes, with bacon and other fixings, Hayden and Halle's new favorite dinner. With a salad and broccoli, it was a filling and healthy dinner, especially if you love potatoes, which the girls do. After ice cream and peaches for dessert, we watched an Iranian film, one we have seen before, called the CHILDREN OF HEAVEN, about a small, impoverished family. A young boy loses his sister's only pair of shoes, forcing them to share the one pair of shoes they own, trading them each day after the girl returns from her morning school. It's a wonderful film, so realistic, their lives so rich despite their poverty, no smaltz, sex, violence, just a film about the human condition, the love between siblings, life as we know it. It makes you feel different about the 'supposed evil empire of Iran.' They are us!
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| Sunday's Dinner |
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