Bass Boats Rising On The Summer Solstice

5:40

6:04

I was up at 5:40 for some reason, in time to listen and watch at least 35 bass boats roar around Long Point, as they are off to catch their quota of fish.  Summer is here, finally, and the fishing season has officially opened, today, the longest day of the year, the shortest night.

I began yesterday with an early yoga class, just two of us, me and another guy, a first, an 'all guys class of two,' with Courtney.  Whether male or female, the routine does not change, lots of work on the back, strengthening it, with various cobras. After class, I picked up some beer and some bread at Wegman's for the weekend and was home ready to clean by 10:30.

When I arrived, Evie was busy cleaning, getting the bathrooms and bedrooms ready for our guests from Maine. She had already made a cauliflower soup for our lunches, put together our dinner of chicken and broccoli and made the beginnings of the baked ziti, a busy morning. While Evie cleaned the bedroom windows, I took out the screens and washed them,  a kind of spring cleaning in June I suppose. By noon, Evie was ready to hit the dock, and I had lunch, leftovers for the most part, and watched the World Cup.

We took it easy for a few hours, enjoying the sunshine and warm weather.  It began to cloud up around 4:00 and thunderstorms were predicted, so Evie decided to cut the lawn, rather than wait for Saturday morning.  While she cut the lawn, I kept busy, washing our front windows, then sweeping and vacuuming both porches.  By 6:00, everything was spiffy, the lawn, the windows, the house, the bedrooms, ready for our friends.  We relaxed for an hour, with a glass of wine, on our front porch and I presented Evie with an early birthday present, a new Nikon CoolPIx camera with a 30X zoom.  Rather than wait till September,  I wanted her to have it for the summer since she is becoming such a good photographer and loves taking pictures of the grandchildren.  An early happy 70th!

We had the chicken curry over rice, easy because Evie put it together in the morning, and we caught up on a couple of shows, and were happy to see that one of our favorite series has returned on Sundance Channel called Rectify.  It's well worth watching, about a guy who is accused and convicted of murdering his girlfriend (though innocent), who eventually is paroled because of DNA evidence.  The townies, however, think he's guilty so he's met with suspicion and anger at his release, even hatred.




Random Think:  

This quotation hangs in the NBA champion San Antonio Spurs locker room, in four different languages: English, Spanish, French and Portuguese). “When nothing seems to help, I go back and look at the stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it — but all that had gone before.”  Jacob Riis