A Lazy Sunday Morning As The Clouds Return

6:01

I was up at 5:45 waiting for the National Anthem and bass boats but, alas, no National Anthem and a sprinkling, or so it seemed of bass boats.  The sky is lightly overcast, the sun filtered some by the clouds, the lake fairly quiet for now, the water wrinkled, the wind from the south, as thunderstorms are forecast.  It's a pleasant  63º, with a nice breeze.

Yesterday was warm and humid, the temperatures in the 80's, a good day to be on the lake, the water, the yard and we took advantage of all three.  I did go to yoga with Chris, a well attended class, a surprise to all of us because usually Saturday's in the summer are not well attended.  We did various postures intended to extend our spines, limbs, and muscles since we spend most of the day in curled positions, sitting or sleeping.  I never thought of that but it's true.  Since I had a hankering for enchiladas, I went to Wegmans to pick up the fixings for them which Evie kindly agreed to make.

Isabel Fishing

When I got home, Evie was in the water, playing with our next door neighbors grandchildren.  Summer really is here.  I finished off the leftover chicken picata and rice for lunch, then watched the entire Brazil/Chile futbol game, mostly because it was so hot outside that I enjoyed the cool and shade of our house.  It went to a shoot out, the pressure on the five players involved was intense, with Brazil winning only when the last Chilean player hit the bar.  I would loved to have seen Chile win because the game was obviously in Brazil and I thought the Brazilians were outplayed.  While I watched the game, Evie read on the dock, swam with the kids, and talked for a good while with Joyce, our neighbor.

Our Neighbor, Bill Leonard, and Maggie

Late afternoon, we both sat with our neighbors, in their yard, talking with their daughter Cris and her husband Kurt, from Portland, Maine, who are here for a week enjoying the lake.  They brought their black lab with them and a portable electric fence, to keep the dog in their yard, a good idea with all the people around this next week.  It works well but scares the heck out the dog if the alarm goes off.

We went home around 6:30 and Evie had already made the chicken, onion, salsa, black bean, and cilantro filling, so she just put the filling in each tortilla, rolled them up, put them in a small glass dish, covered them with cheese, and 15 minutes later we had a great dinner.  It was just what I wanted, cheesy, tasty and filling.  We watched the much acclaimed movie HER, the story about a strange guy who falls in love with OS, an operating system on his computer.  He's recovering from a divorce and reads about OS, a personalized operating symstem which mimics a human.  He downloads it and begins to establish a relationship, via a voice on the computer, with Samantha, the OS's name.  Scarlett Johansson is the disembodied voice.  The movie starts slow, as we are not quite sure what to expect, but, like LARS AND THE REAL GIRl (where Ryan Gosling falls in love with a life size blow up woman), we get pulled in, forget about the fact that Samantha is just a voice, and are entranced with this strange but touching relationship.  Joaquin Phoenix is amazing, the relationship feels real, and when Samantha decides to move on (she's having over 8000 relationships with other users among other changes), to larger things, we are devastated as is Joaquin when the computer goes blank.  The movie ends with him sitting on an apartment roof, with his good friend and neighbor, played by Amy Adams (who also has had a similar relationship), as they contemplate what they have just experienced, what are the consequences.  We, as the viewers, are not sure what's next.  At first, we thought it might be suicide but now we think it's the beginning of a relationship?  An original, spectacularly daring film, a love story essentially, well worth watching.

A Serious Fisherman In A  Kayak