Overcast, Some Rain, A Quiet Beginning to Labor Day Weekend

Enjoying a Pitcher at the Seezurh House

6:20

I got up at 6:20, went outside after turning on the coffee and everything was still wet from some showers last night, about 1/10th of a inch.  I walked out on the dock, not a boat insight, surprising because this should be the last busy weekend on the lake.  After Monday, things will settle down, traffic will almost disappear, and the locals take over.  And we can walk the Chautauqua Institution any time we wish.

Yesterday began with yoga, perhaps my last class for awhile as my pass runs out unless I decide to take on another month.  We will see.  Class was small, a couple of people I recognized, and the teacher, Courtney was her usual cheerful self, quite a contrast to moi.  She unlike the others does eye yoga, where we move our eyes to the far left and right, and also draw circles with them, both clockwise and counter clockwise.  I have no idea of its effectiveness but it sounds good...exercise your eyes.

I came home to a house full of fans, as we want to make sure our carpet dries before we set everything back in its place.  The humidity was as high as 98%, with no wind, so we have had the fans on for two days.  It feels normal this morning so I assume we will now be able to put down some of our Turkish carpets.  I have to say our living room looks amazingly good (and clean), as Evie has worked hard at cleaning every table, lamp, and chair before putting it back in place.  I wonder if it's in my head, that it looks so different, or whether it really does look different once the carpet is cleaned, the chairs and couches put back in place?

New Lime Light Hydrangeas from Virginia

Because it was supposed to rain on and off all weekend, Evie decided to give the lawn one more mowing, despite the hot weather.  It was brutally warm, for Chautauqua, from 11:00 on, mostly because of the humidity.  As Evie cut, I went fishing in my kayak, one of the few boats on the lake at 4:00.  My first cast brought in a feisty sun fish but that was it for the next forty five minutes.  When I got back, both Evie and our neighbor Joyce were standing, neck deep in the lake, talking and they stayed there, cool and refreshed, for a half hour, talking.  It reminded me of some of the Florida condos we stayed with my parents in the 1980's where the pool was often busy with snow birds, usually leather skinned women, who would spend hours standing in the pool, keeping cool, kibitzing on short winter afternoons.

The Mc Clure picked us up at 6:00, for a final summer hurrah, a beer on the porch of the Lenhart Hotel because it closes in three days, a sign summer is truly over.  Bemus Point was packed with people, perhaps because of the Neil Diamond sound alike concert.  We were, however, able to get rocking chairs on the Lenhart porch.  Ron and I ordered Old Vienna's, our routine, and the four of us sat on the porch, enjoying our libations, lamenting the end of summer, but looking forward to the crisp, colorful days of autumn.

We went to the Seezurh House for a fish fry, always good but had to wait forty five minutes for our dinners.  It was crowded, no doubt but the waitress explained that one of the cooks either had to leave at the last minute or quit, we are not sure which.  It was fun to see the Seezuhr House so busy, the porch filled as well as the dining rooms and we reminded ourselves of a few dinners we had in the past year, probably in February, when we were the only customers in the restaurant.  We walked down to the floating dock, past the long line of people getting ice cream cones, listened to the sequined, strutting Neil Diamond double for about ten minutes, then drove home on a warm late summer night, perfect for sitting outside and listening to a concert, which hundreds of people did.  Another good night with the Mc Clures.

As I finished this, it's still overcast, gray on gray though our neighbors ski boat did fly by twenty minutes ago, a sign that summer and warm weather remains at least for a few more days.