Sun Or Rain

6:13

8:34

Well, it's just about 7:00 and I have been up an hour, waiting for the predicted rain and the sun just came out.  Typical for Chautauqua and we knew that by cutting the yards yesterday because of the coming rain, it wouldn't rain.  It's 55º and may end up being a fine day at the lake.  It's just after 9:00 as I finish this blog and I had a windy but happy paddle in my kayak to Long Point and back, a good way to start the day.

Off To Long Point

Kayak Morning

Yesterday began with another fine yoga class, lots of students and the best part, it was sunny and mild most of the day.  After class, I went to the nursery and picked up five pots of wave petunias for Evie's flower boxes and then stopped at Save A Lot to pick up the fixings for tacos,  our dinner last night. When I got home, Evie had spent much of the morning catching up on wash and reworking the back bedroom, getting it ready for our June visitors.

Lunch was easy, my white bean stew (kuru fasulye) and toast.  It tasted as good as ever and for once, I seem to have gotten the seasonings, basically Turkish pepper and salt just right.  I then read for an hour and finished my Vietnam book, MATTERHORN, the war from the grunt's point of view.  After reading this book, it's easy to see why so many vets have committed suicide.  Few Marines survived the SNAFUS, the constant fear, the deaths of buddies without suffering from major trauma.

We spent most of the afternoon, then, outside getting things done, readying the place for summer.  I got out the buoys and placed them in the lake, dividing our swimming area from boats. And Evie continued to scrape and sand the benches that we keep on our dock.  They are in bad shape and need a new coat of paint.  Around 4:30 because of the forecast for rain, we fired up both power mowers and quickly cut both yards.  There's pleasure in seeing a lawn well cut, green and trimmed, part I suppose of the American dream...your own home and a spiffy, well-kept lawn and yard.  And by 6:00 the lake had settled down, so we poured a couple of Blue Moon's into a glass, added a slice of orange and sat out on our dock, enjoying the late afternoon/early evening with a bowl of pistachios.

Late Afternoon Clouds

Dinner involved heating up taco meat that Evie had frozen a few weeks ago and got out all the fixings for the taco salad, avocados, lettuce, tomatoes, and sour cream.  We watched another episode of BETTER CALL SAUL, again, pretty boring, watched Vice News, and the first half of the Cavs game before going up to bed to start a new book, this one set in Leningrad during WWI II called City Of Thieves, recommended by my sister, Ellen.