Steam Rising At Dawn

6:05

Evie and I are both up just after 6:00, a sunny morning but chilly, 46º, the reason the steam seems to moving above the lake, blurring the shorelines.  It looks like a nice couple of days, gradually getting warmer as we move into Sunday.

We both enjoyed yesterday, a perfect June day on the lake, the kind we love, sunny but not too warm, perhaps too much breeze, but a clear sky, deep blue lake, the kind of day which makes you want to be outside, either relaxing or working.  We chose to relax.  Before, however, I went to yoga, a crowded class, and Evie did 'big shopping' for the weekend, as our good friends from the Portland, Maine area, the Armontrouts, are visiting for a few days before heading on to Akron, Ohio, for a family reunion. After yoga, I stopped at Ryder's for a coffee, and picked up the new book on Jamestown, by local Peter Lombardi, called Jamestown, New York: A Guide to the City And Its Urban Landscape.  It looks interesting, talks about the making of the city, especially the various buildings and talks about their history (Sears Roebuck became the Post Journal), transitions in the past twenty years, and their address, so you can take it with you if you want a tour of the city's most interesting buildings.

The major decision for the day was what to have for dinners on Saturday and Sunday.  Once that was settled, Evie could make up her shopping list and drive to Wegman's.  She returned home just as I was finishing my lunch and watching more World Cup.  It took three or four trips to get the groceries in the house, but we are more than ready for the weekend.  The rest of the day, once we unpacked, was spent outside reading, as we wanted to enjoy the day to the max.  Evie tried the dock for about an hour but the wind became too much, so we both ended up sitting on chaise lounges in our side yard, away from the wind, but warmed by the sun, cooled a bit by the breeze, with the brilliant colors of the lake in front of us.  We must have sat outside for two or three hours, reading, napping for me, just enjoying the fine June afternoon.  Evie's reading a new highly recommended book called The Vacationeer's and I am reading a Ward Just novel called American Romantic. which I am really enjoying because its about American involvement in foreign wars, the absurdity of it, the idea that we can remake a country, so apropos considering what's going in in Iraq.  We really made a difference (irony).

A Breezy Afternoon

For dinner, we had the leftover eggplant parmesan, even better than Wednesday night, and a salad, watched the usuals, before going to bed around 10:30.  It was a beautiful evening, but we spent it watching TV.  I think we are going to have to change our winter habits some, to take more advantage of our summer nights.

Today we get things ready for our company.  Evie's already in the kitchen making cauliflower soup for the weekend.  It smells good, hope I can have some for lunch.