There/Where Goes The Sun

7:46

It's a gray, wet, windy morning, the kind I had better get used to seeing.  The past few months have almost made me forget the fact that for a good six months, we have mostly cloudy skies here at Chautauqua Lake, one of those areas with the fewest number of sunny days in the US, like Cleveland and Buffalo.  That being said, both Evie and I enjoy the gray, treasure the sun and blue skies more during the winter because it's so rare.  It's a chilly 52º this morning and may not even get into the 60's over the next few days...get out our fleeces!

Yesterday was another lost day for both of us, accomplishing little, spending no time outside either  kayaking or walking (Evie did go for a short swim), partly because of the weather, rain most of the day.  I drove into Erie for a test which took a couple of hours, should have taken about a half hour.  Welcome to modern medicine, the long, long wait at a doctor's office.  Afterwards, I stopped at the Subaru dealer, to sign up for four more years of maintenance, a gamble I suppose by both of us.  I figured with all the electronics, the cameras, etc, something big has to go wrong over the next seven years.  We will have to wait and see. And I got a special non glare coating putting on my windshield, something Evie wanted.  That's it...no more bucks for my car.  And just as I thought that yesterday, I got a package via Fed EX  with the info for getting a New York state license plate, for paying the sales tax on my car here in New York. Yikes.  It never ends.

While I was in Erie, Evie did what she dislikes the most, she shopped in Lakewood, at Wegman's, with her Wegman's app on her iPhone, which tells her not only what is on her list, but also where to find it, what aisle.  And to top off this experience, she paid with Apple Pay on her iPhone. Her second least favorite thing is to shop for, clothes, so she perused the L.L. Bean catalog and ordered a few things from them, easy and free returns.  Yippee.  

Leftover hamburger stroganoff sounded good for dinner, so Evie boiled some extra noodles, combined them with the stroganoff and we had plenty of dinner, in fact, I may have it for lunch today.   Waste not, want not.  And after buying a car, we are going on a budget!  We started a movie, The Sunshine State, directed by John Sayles, but its didacticism was obvious and boring, the outcome clear, so we watched the first new episode of The Daily Show, with Trevor Noah and we liked it and him.  He seemed genuine, poised, and funny.  We also watched the previous night's Stephen Colbert, his interview with Michelle Obama.  She comes across as an amazing First Lady, spontaneous, funny, articulate, smart and passionate about women's causes.  We both wondered where she has been the last year or two.