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| 6:52 |
Up at 6:00, too late to see the sunrise but its brilliance filled the sky, the lake and our living room. It's a chilly 52º but should hit the 80's later in the day, in short, another crummy day on the lake. And I am listening to the pundits dissect the UK's decision to leave the EU. It's implications, for me, are scary in that the populism that propelled the Brexit or 'Leave EU Movement' in the UK, mostly angry, white, anti globalism/free trade/immigrant, is the same base supporting the Donald. Is this populism in the US large enough to elect Trump? Well, if a historic change like this could happen in the UK, then a similar historic Trump victory could also happen. Scary.
Yesterday was a busy day for both of us, not that we did not enjoy it. For some reason, we both spent most of the morning in the yard, doing those things that don't really show. We watered all the bushes, the grass, the trees, and did lots of weeding. I also turned the lake weeds numerous times, helping them to dry before getting rid of them. Evie also had a few projects in the house and did some washing and drying, catching up on things.
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| A Beautiful Late Afternoon Kayak |
I had leftover tacos for lunch, watched some junk TV before taking a nap and doing some reading, as I am slowly working through the Pulitzer Prize winning THE SYMPATHIZER. I like it but for some reason it's taking me a while to get through it. Most of the day we worked under overcast skies, so we did not take advantage of the lake. Around 5:00, however, the sun came out and we decided to take a kayak paddle over to Long Point and back. As we were kayaking, we heard raucous voices coming from the Marina; they were filled with laughter and as we got closer, it was four guys struggling to move a boat lift into place. They had no floats, the water was deep, so they had to synchronize holding their breath as they moved it ten feet at a time. Obviously, this was not a very efficient method. We laughed along with them, and then paddled back into the sun, warming but blinding.
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| Four Stooges |
We were home just after 6:00 and Evie quickly got busy in the kitchen because we were both hungry. Our meal was one of our go to meals, our typical orange marmalade sauce on salmon (thanks, Ellen), with rice and garlic spinach. We seem to have it at least once every ten days. We were not sure what to watch on TV. I tried to get a movie on Apple TV but it wouldn't work, of course, so we said the heck with it and watched some Stephen Colbert. As we were finishing our meal, we heard a pounding out on our dock, and, Chris, who helps us with our boat and dock, was pounding one of our errant poles into the lake bottom. I went out to talk with him, and he then helped me put some stringers under the dock pieces at the end of our dock. It's the reason I bought the 2x6x10's earlier in the week.
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| Steadying The Dock With Chris |
Around 8:30, I tried Apple TV again and found that one of the buttons was turned off but not by me. It's one of those things that happen in technology that you cannot figure out how it happened. Anyways, I got it to work so we watched the first episode or Season 2 of Bosch on Amazon Prime. It's a decent series, following Harry Bosch, the detective in Michael Connelly's novels. That was it for the night.
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