A Veritable Summer Day

6:35

7:52

Up late, at 7:00, only to discover the coffee was made, the paper was in, and Evie was already up. Strange.  It's gray outside, with a heavy, dark cloud cover.  We had thunderstorms during the night but escaped the worst, as the Buffalo area was hit hard, with loss of electricity in some areas and trees down.  It's 64º, humid, and should clear up later in the day.  We'll see. And as we sit here each morning, the ever changing sky always amazes us, as you can see below.

Heavy Rains at 8:00

Sun Begins To Come Out at 8:11

Yesterday it actually felt like summer, sunny and warm most of the day, so we spent a good amount of time out on the dock, sunbathing and then, when too warm, we would jump in the lake to cool off. It's the first time this summer I can remember a day like this.  It felt amazing.  I started the day with yoga, a packed class, as everyone seemed to want to start summer with a class.  Danielle's classes are the best, mostly because we are always doing something different; I don't like a class where we do the same thing, in the same order, each class.  Afterwards, I had a marathon of stops, at Ryders for coffee and some free range eggs, then Home Depot, Wegman's, Walmart, and the car wash.  I did not get home until 12:30 and Evie was already out on the dock, enjoying the day.  She had, however, spent most of the morning culling the photographs from last summer, so we are ready this morning to send them off to Shutterfly, and then she can begin organizing them into a photo book.  She's good at it because she is patient, unlike me!

I had lunch, black bean soup which I made Saturday morning, and a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, both good.  I watched ESPN, listened to the talking heads sing the praises of the Jordan Spieth who had just won the US Open.  He seems to always say the right thing despite his age, like Lebron actually, who rarely made a mistake, always talking about his teammates, team work, and not himself.  That, by the way, has changed in the last couple of years...King James!

After lunch, I joined Evie on the dock, swam some, waterproofed the cover on the may boat by taking a ladder out into the water, standing on it, and spraying the canvas.  It worked well. Around 4:00, Evie got bored with just sitting around, not me, and cut the lawn because we had heard thunderstorms were heading our way.  The boat ride we had planned on, just before dinner was put on hold for a good reason.  It rained hard around 6:30, just as I was grilling our steaks, so that I had to use an umbrella.  The steak turned out well, one of the best we have had, and Evie baked some potatoes, sauteed mushrooms, roasted cauliflower and made a salad.  We watched the episodes from two new HBO series, True Detective and The Brink, one a complex, confusing, often violent detective series, the other a spoof/satire on international politics, with silly, unattractive politicians marking decisions that effect the world.  We ended the evening with a good Rita episode; we are going to miss her when the series ends.

It's now 8:00 and the rain has just started again, hitting our porch, pelting the lake.  No kayaking for us this morning.