Another Crisp, Bright And Shiny Saturday Morning

7:15

First Signs Of Spring In Our Yard

Awake early, laying in bed trying to figure out how early it was from the amount of light in our bedroom.  I assumed it was around 6:30 but it was really 6:08.  I should have stayed in bed.  It's now 6:50, and I am on my second cup of coffee, the sun is in full bloom over the lake, and Click and Clack are about to finish, Only A Game about to begin.  My Saturday mornings don't seem to change, except for the seasons.

Yesterday began with a special introductory class at the yoga studio, given by one of women in my yoga class, Sarah Hoffman.  She's very interested in alternative medicine though she's a radiology technician.  It's worked for her, so she wants others to benefit from her successes.  Sarah gave a talk/demonstration to about nine of us about Chakra breathing.  Those who follow this practice believe there are seven chakras or centers in our body, starting with the crown, then moving to the brow, throat, heart, solar plexus, sacrum, and root.  Each center has a color which influences it and she believes our anxieties, pains, and sicknesses, arise from the blockage of these centers.  Basically, in a simplistic way, she believes that by breathing and meditating various colors, depending on the pain and area, relief will occur.  She had us breathe in the color white from our crown, down our spine, to our root, then exhale it back through the spine and out brow.  This will supposedly clear our chakras.  It was an interesting class, probably not something I will pursue, but for her, it was important enough to share and everyone enjoyed the class.  Before the 10:00 class, I did a quick run through Wegman's, picking up food for our Easter weekend dinners.

Neither one of us had much energy.  Evie did not  feel like working out, and I did not want to hike. We both feel a little off,  perhaps a "bug"of some sort.  Anyways, we did do some work in the yard, trimming bushes and small trees, and I made three trips to the Tri James quarry, and spread the stones on half of the damp road in front of our house.  Hopefully, we will be able to walk on it without getting wet.  The rest of the afternoon we just snoozed, read or watched TV.  I had picked a recipe out of the Smitten Kitchen cookbook,  chicken cutlets with a panko/mustard coating and a salad of arugula and fennel.  So early on, Evie pulled the chicken out of the freezer, cut and pounded the cutlets and put them in the refrigerator until she was ready to cook.  Around 6:00, neither one of us felt like getting dinner ready, so we put off the special chicken and salad dinner until Saturday, and we ordered a pizza from Adriaaccios's, feeling guilty about our laziness.  I picked it up around 6:30, and we had an easy dinner.  Why we should feel guilty about following our impulses, a leftover from our Puritan ancestors.

We finished the Hunger Games (Catching Fire), and the second half was less interesting then the first.It reminded me of the TV show Survivor except that the game was to kill the other competitors. And we watched the first two episodes of a new series on HBO called Silicon Valley.  It has gotten good reviews and we both liked it quite a bit.  It follows a group of geeks, all living in a California bungalow, who come up with the 'new new thing', and it follows their journey, I assume, as they are wooed by various companies, and the main character must decide whether to sell it or keep it for himself and become his own boss.  It loosely follows the route that Steve Jobs and his buddies took, starting in a garage, deciding to build their own company, and moving on from there.  I hope it continues to be savvy, interesting as well as funny.