Wet and Gray Morning

6:30 AM

6:55

5:30, Monday Afternoon

Up early, because we are going into Erie for a doctor's appointment at 8:30. It's strange to have a cloudy morning; I was getting used to sun rises and clear skies, warm weather.  Snow flurries are possible tomorrow morning.

Like most Monday's, there were ten of us at yoga, lots of talk before class, then a few asanas that I had never done before, the kind that tell me my hamstrings are too tight.  Ouch.  Class was fine, with many talking about a cute yoga top one of them found at the Sahalie catalog.  Needless to say, they did not come in talls.  After yoga, I went to Ryder's, bought a coffee, and also picked up a book, just out, by a local Maple Springs resident called CLEAR SKIES, DARK WATERS.  It has gotten some press, about the author's life here at the lake after some personal and financial setbacks.  It looks like it's about her growth, her family, the Chautauqua area, and how it helped pull her life together.  Then, I stopped at Tri James, got another receipt for more stones from the quarry, and I stopped on the way home for four buckets worth.  It's getting to be my life...measuring it in buckets of stones.

Turkey Vultures Return

Evie had been busy while I was gone, did some painting, more cleaning, until we had lunch, soup and pizza and watched last night's episode of Silicon Valley, not as good as the previous two.  Let's hope it gets better.  Mid afternoon, I went back to Tri James twice, to get more stones, for spreading on our road and I think one more trip will do it.  But then, our parking spaces now look naked, so no doubt, I will be going back for more to spread on our parking spaces.  At 4:30, we decided it was too nice of a day to not take a walk, so we headed over to Bemus and walked Lakeside Drive, as it was starting to cloud up but was still warm, in the low 70's.  We walked 3/4's of the way down, then turned around because we were whooped.  Not much action on Lakeside drive, a few landscaping firms cleaning yards.  In Bemus proper, however, there was some digging up of sidewalks in front of Sklllman's and the Surf Club, quite a mess at the moment.  Lots of people were sitting on the front porch of the Seezurh House, enjoying the warm weather, a number of the women/girls in short shorts.  Zowie.

Scallops A La Evie For Dinner

We got home around 6:00 and because we were hungry, Evie started dinner, scallops in a wine/lemon/shallot/garlic sauce over linguine.  This makes our third straight night with restaurant quality dinners. We also liked the salad dressing so much from Saturday night's dinner that Evie made it again because it's so simple, 3 TBS of lemon juice, 3 TBS of Dijon mustard, and a 1/4 of a cup of olive oil.   This feasting stops today, when we get back to comfort foods, like tacos, good but not tres chic as my sister Ellen would say.