A Chautauqua Gray Morning

6:56

7:43

I was up just about 7:00, the lake matching the sky with its gray.  I noticed a guy walking out to fish from Victoria and now, at 8:00, he's the only guy out on the lake, a lonely fisherman.  We should get some snow, rain, and heavy winds over the weekend.  Yet the last few mornings, I heard birds chirping when I walked outside to take a dawn photograph, sure signs of spring.  Now for the peepers and spring will actually arrive.

Yesterday we were both up early because Evie was getting an MRI on her spine because of sciatica which has been bothering her for a couple of weeks.  We were at WCA by 9:15 and left around 10:30.  We hope this is the first step towards recovery.  We stopped at Tops in Jamestown on the way home and Evie is beginning to think this is her favorite store, after Wegmans.  It's huge and has a whole section devoted to Goya products, most likely because of the Latino residents in Jamestown.  And they have all kinds of Latin American vegetables as well.  We bought a few things, tomatoes and feta cheese for sure because Evie was craving a Turkish tomato and cheese omelette for lunch.  On the way home, we stopped at B and H Supply, on Strunk Road and picked out a shingle because we are getting a new roof on our home this spring.  The salesman was great, knowledgeable and helpful.  What a difference that makes when shopping.  We are having Amish roofers shingle our house and they seemed professional and reasonable.  And they were the only roofers to return our call and stop by our house and give us a price.

3:56

We were home by noon, put the groceries away and Evie quickly got out the frying pan, sauteed the tomatoes, added the eggs and feta cheese and we had lunch, with a potato focaccia we bought at Tops.  We watched some tv and that was it for the both of us, as we relaxed and enjoyed the leisure of a rainy and foggy Friday afternoon.  Neither of us felt like cooking, baking, or going out for a walk, just watching the fog roll in, practically obscuring Long Point.

Around 5:30, however, we decided that going out for a fish fry would be easier and more fun than making a dinner at home.  So we drove off to Greenhurst, to Steener's Irish Pub, for their fish fry, pretzel breaded perch, with sweet potato fries, and fire roasted zucchini.  The place was packed when we got in, with only one seat open at the bar.  Evie took it and within five minutes, a seat opened up a couple of seats away.  We asked if a couple at the bar would mind moving down two and we both had seats.  We had the fish fry, loved the meal, along with a couple of beers.

We did not feel like lingering so within an hour, we were on our way home, ready for a night of Olympics and a new series on Netflix from Veena Sud, the creator of one of our favorite shows, The Killing.  We watched the two Russians skate on delay, both young amazing skaters.  We then watched the first two episodes of  Sud's SEVEN SECONDS and we both were quickly drawn into the series.  It will give us something fun and serious to watch over the next couple of days.  The story revolves around a police coverup of a hit and run accident of a young African American male, with echoes of Ferguson.