A Chilly But Partly Sunny Morning

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6:50

Up at 6: 45 (Evie's already been up for an hour), to a pink sky, some clouds, but not rain.  It's 54º, supposedly warming up to the high 70's but getting cooler tonight and tomorrow, with more fall like weather.  It's so good to see the sun this morning after a number of gray, rainy days.

Yesterday it rained off and on most of the day, not hard, just a drizzle but things stayed wet most of the day.  We decided to walk Lakeside Drive, over at Bemus in the morning, something we have not done all summer to be honest.  We just never seemed to have the time or I went to yoga instead of walking. Anyways, it was windy and wet when we started out, but the rain stopped after about 15 minutes and we had a good walk to the park entrance and back, about three miles.  Something always changes when we walk this route, either a house is being renovated, for sale, or sold.  Some have been on the market for a couple of years.  It felt good to walk, to be wet and chilly for a bit, reminded us of some of our walks in the past when we fought heavy winds, snow, almost blizzard like conditions but we loved it.  Crazy people.

New Buddha in Evie's Garden

We did not do much the rest of the day, relaxing after a busy weekend of picnics and porch parties. Evie did spend quite a bit of time on the dock fishing, with her raincoat on, and had some luck but nothing larger than six to eight inches.  Still, it's fun to catch anything.  After lunch, I suggested we go to a movie at 4:00, and after, have dinner at the Rod and Gun. So we wrapped things up around the house at 3:30 and went to see Blue Jasmine, Woody Allen's new film.  And Tuesdays, we had forgotten, are half price coke and popcorn days.  Evie was happy.  We both liked the film but neither of us loved it, giving it a B - or C+. Kate Blanchett was amazing as the wife of a disgraced Hedge Fund manager, a take off on Bernie Madoff's wife I suppose.  Blanchett, in debt and friendless, comes to live with her sister in San Francisco, and try to put her life back together.   But we got tired of her after awhile, her constant unhappiness and lying, her elitism, her feeble attempts to atone for ruining other people's lives. The minor characters, in contrast to her unhappiness, are fun, make you laugh, and we welcomed them when they were on screen.  I particularly liked her sister and her boy friend,  Chili.  In contrast to Blanchett's life of money and power, they were defiantly lower middle class, especially Chili, struggling to make it as a mechanic and grocery store check out person. I am not sure I could have told you this was a Woody Allen film if I did not know he directed and wrote it before I saw it.  It is talky at times, like his earlier films, but I found this much darker, unrelieved by occasional humor. Still, it's worth seeing.

We stopped at Walmart after the film, bought new 'little clio' lures, our favorites because we intend on doing some 'serious fishing' this week.  And we went to the Rod and Gun for dinner, busy but not like a Friday or Saturday night.  We had a beer  at the bar, then dinner.  The specials on Tuesday were fried chicken and beef stroganoff.  Evie got the chicken, which was surprisingly good, like Kenny Kings, if you lived in Euclid in the 1950's, or a bit like Kentucky Fried but not as greasy.  She would order it again.  I got a plate of mussels, with butter, and ate a couple of pieces of Evie's chicken which she was nice enough to share.  We got home around 9:00, had another piece of peach pie, watched some TV and read before going to bed.