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| Woodlawn Colors |
I woke at 6:00 to the comforting sound of rain on the roof. Walked outside in the dark to puddles everywhere, 3.5 inches of rain in our new rain gauge. It's been raining on and off for 36 hours, a rare experience in Chautauqua County recently. Autumn seems to have arrived in the last two days, temperatures and leaves falling, colors changing, daylight dwindling as we march towards the winter solstice on December 21st. It's 48º, a high perhaps 50º if we are lucky.
Yesterday was a welcome gray and wet day, quite a contrast to our Indian summer days the previous couple of weeks. That's ended for sure, or so it seems, so instead of enjoying sunning on our dock, we are going to have get outside and walk or hike more, now that the days have cooled off. We had plans to walk in late afternoon but ended up putting it off for another day because of the rain. I did make it to Yin Yoga, my favorite class, in fact, everyone's favorite because it's easy on the joints and does not demand much rigor, just holding a pose for a couple of minutes. After class, I came straight home because earlier in the morning I had breakfast at the Bemus Point Inn with three of the guys. So I was coffee-ed out, still full from scrambled eggs with crumbled bacon.
When I got home, I was surprised to see Evie relaxing although she quickly made it clear she had just sat down, as if I caught her relaxing. Hey, I spend my life relaxing for the most part, avoiding anything that might demand too much effort or time. So I am always happy to see her 'doing nothing,' which seemed to be her theme for the day. She did , however, make our dinner, black bean and chicken enchiladas and got my lunch ready, leftover mashed potatoes made into patties and fried, with the butter chicken from the previous night's dinner, a perfect lunch. I ate and watched, right, Longmire and have perhaps five more episodes to go in this new season sad to say.
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| Crisis On Long Point? |
I fell asleep reading my new book, awakened by Evie who was bemoaning the fact that there was a power/front shovel off of Long Point, worried they might be taking down a couple of trees. I suggested they might be attempting to stop the erosion of the point and said we should get out our kayaks and go look, which is what we did. Fortunately, the rain had stopped, the lake was calm, so it was fun to paddle over and see what was going on.
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| Fighting The Erosion Of Long Point |
The operator, when he saw us, stepped out of his cab and explained that they were attempting to stop the erosion by placing huge rocks in a V around the point. Evie was ecstatic because we both love to look at this peninsula each morning and have grown quite attached to the slanted tree on its point. We paddled home happy with our knowledge that our tree, the tip of Long Point's erosion, may have ended. We will, however, have to wait to see what the winter ice does to the rock wall.
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| Cruising Long Point |
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| A Happy Paddler |
We then enjoyed the late afternoon, and Evie put together her favorite garlic paste, a Middle Eastern mixture of 4 roasted garlic heads, oil, lemon juice and water called Toum. Afterwards, Evie put the enchiladas in the oven, made a salad, and sat down with me to enjoy a glass of wine while dinner heated up. The chicken/black bean enchiladas are not only tasty but easy to make and put together if you have cooked chicken. We put salsa and sour cream over them and it's become one of our mainstays, healthy and good. We watched the first two episodes of HBO's new series, DIVORCE, which we both liked and the first episode of their newest attempt at a blockbuster, WESTWORLD, about a futuristic amusement park which allows its visitors to live out their fantasies through artificial intelligence. It's confusing at first but eventually we caught on. It's not our usual cup of tea but we will stick with it to see if it grabs our interest. We ended the evening watching Hillary and the Donald jabbing each other, and themselves, at the Al Smith dinner; there were many funny moments but, as expected, Trump took it too far and was booed for several of his comments.
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