Morning Rain

6:30

Sunrise, 8/27/2012

It was 6:10 when both Evie and got up, to a wet yard, the reassuring sound of rain on the roof top and trees,  It's gray outside, with a tinge of yellow, unhealthy looking to be honest, as the sun must have come into play though I see no evidence of it's rising other than the lightening gray vista.

Yesterday was one of those days where we were both still tired from our weekend festivities but we had things to do so we marshaled on.  For Evie, it meant painting the bead board wall but before doing it, we had to decide on a color, which we finally did.  Since we were not taken with any of the colors of the rainbow, we went with a lighter shade of our walls, a light buff and we just happened to have a can of paint upstairs from painting our walls two years ago.  It took Evie a couple of hours but when done, we were both really happy with the look and will probably stick with it.  There's a large space above the bead board, perfect for a picture but we tried one of our copper trays and it looked great, blending in nicely with the colors on our back splash so I think it's almost done.  We will live with it for awhile and see how we feel in a couple of weeks because the color will be easy to change if we like.

My role was to go to the paint store once, also to Chautauqua Brick for supplies, and I returned some of the molding we did not use from putting up of the bead board.  It was a warm sticky day, not exactly the kind of weather for painting but it's done.  I also trimmed out hedges, ripped out some of the choking vines that often invest them, filled my boat, getting it ready for the weekend with friends from Istanbul.

At 6:00, our friends the Mc Clures came over.  Both Ron and Linda liked the color of the wall and Evie and Linda brainstormed about the space above the bead board, coming up with the idea of our copper tray.  It helps, usually, to have someone else's opinion.  We went out for dinner to Guppy's, a spot we are beginning to like more and more, like most people, because it seems to be the busiest restaurant on the lake, always people waiting to get in.  We were lucky like the previous two or three times, to get a seat in the bar where we like to sit.  I ran into a fellow yoga student; I did not remember her name but she introduced herself and her husband to Evie and me.  We had beers and most of us had the two specials of the day, beer and cheese soup, followed by a teriyaki chicken quesadilla, both quite good. We also ordered onion rings for the table as an appetizer, and they were excellent as well.  We had a good time, catching up, talking about our weekend, the Mc Clure's weekend as well, returning home around 8:45.  We watched some TV and I read quite a bit as I am almost finished with THE INTERESTINGS, which I have quite enjoyed.  It's overdue so I want to get it done because it's costing me a nickel a day.  Whoa!