April Snowflakes Bring June Flowers

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I woke every half hour from 3:30 on, waiting for 6:00 when I could get up and listen to the news about last night's attacks on Syria.  Everyone seems to think this was the right thing but for me, it had echoes of 1991 and 2003 when we attacked Iraq.  And the white morning was no surprise as it had been predicted for a few days.  It's 32º, a wet snow sticking to trees, roofs and lawn, for now.  We may have a couple of inches by the end of the day but it will not stay beyond the weekend.

Long Point At 7:30

Yesterday was Chautauqua gray, again, with heavy rain at times, even creating puddles on the roads. I made sure to go yoga class since next week, the studio closes for Spring Break.  Class was crowded, lots of interesting postures.  Afterwards, I stopped at the Lakewood Library, picked up a couple of books since I just finished Philip Roth's AMERICAN PASTORAL, and drove home in a heavy downpour.  I was home just after noon and Evie was packing up a few things to mail before driving off to Lakewood to the Y.  For lunch, I made myself a chicken/tomato sandwich on toast and heated a bowl of vegetable soup.  I finished a Wallander, and then wasted the rest of the afternoon reading, napping, watching it rain.  I checked our rain gauge in the afternoon and we had two and a half inches since Monday.

Evie returned around 3:30, just as the rain let up for an hour and the sky almost cleared.  By 5:00, however, the wind picked up, it started to rain, and we knew that snow was soon on its way.  Dinner was sockeye salmon, a brown rice, tomato and feta cheese side, and a salad.  We did relax with a glass of wine before Evie finished off the salmon in the broiler, watching the stormy weather take over, the raft of buffleheads dive for weeds in front of our house.

Bufflehead Frenzy

We looked forward to watching the most recent THE AMERICANS but it was a bit disappointing but was superlative compared to what we watched next, the increasingly stupid and silly DESIGNATED SURVIVOR.  It should be billed as a comedy.  We watched other news programs, thought we might watch a cooking show, just as 'breaking news' on CNN actually was 'BREAKING NEWS.' For the next hour, we channel surfed between MSNBC, CNN and FOX, listening to how the pundits spun the missile attacks on a Syrian Air Base.

I  have to say I may be one of the few American uncomfortable with Trump, a former reality TV host with little understanding of history or the Middle East (at least for now), deciding to launch 60 missiles on a Syrian Air Base when a few days before he argued Syrians should settle their own problems.  A few days later, he watches the horrific results of a bombing in Syria on TV (by the way, this has been happening for the past five years now), suddenly changes his mind,  and orders missiles launched.   Impetuous, scary or well thought out?  And what are the unintended consequences since Trump has no plan for bringing peace to Syria.