An Overcast And Noisy Purple Martin Morning

6:04

 Purple Martins Collecting for their Nests 

I have been up since 6:00, in time to see the sun appear and disappear behind a cloud cover.  We had a light rain overnight, as the lawn, bushes, and trees are still wet.  It 63º at the moment and will be cooler and less humid than yesterday.

It was good to get back to yoga after a hiatus of a couple of days.  Class was small, just the two of us but I enjoyed the morning.  Afterwards, I stopped at Tri James and picked up three more buckets of top soil, as I was patching areas of the lawn where I had applied weed killer in small doses, not that I like using it but these are a foot or more patches of an ugly weed.

For lunch, Evie made open-faced tuna and cheese sandwiches and put them under the broiler until the cheese was melted and golden, an easy but good lunch.  We watched Nurse Jackie, still failing at giving up her drug habit.  I am getting tired of her relapses but I supposed it's accurate...it's not easy to kick a habit like that.  And her habit makes the series more tense and interesting, full of conflict with family and the hospital where she works.

Biking Black Locust Trail

We both worked in the yard in the afternoon, me clearing patches of weeds, roughing it up, seeding it, then adding top soil.  It was an easy job but I was bathed in sweat because of the humidity.  Evie worked in her garden some but wanted more exercise so she fired up  the mower and cut both lawns again.  Needless to say, they look perfect after a second cutting, that spring green lawn impossible to capture on canvas or in a picture.

View from Long Point Park Pavilion

After working in the yard till 6:00, we looked forward to sitting out on or front porch, with a glass of chilled white wine, enjoying the view, the purple martins flight and song, the changing colors of the lake.  What a nice way to end the day. For dinner, we pulled out pulled pork, added tomatoes and sauerkraut to it, heated it for an hour and with mashed potatoes, we had dinner.  We watched this year's final episode of Mad Men, as they prepare for the last six episodes of the series, which won't air until next year.  It's 1969, Neil Armstrong has just walked on the moon, and Don almost loses his job, does lose his wife, but pulls himself together and seems ready and accepting of change.  We will have to see how he handles Roger as his boss, life without Megan, his wife, and a changing advertising scene, as television takes over from the printed ad.