A Pristine Sunday Morning

6:50

8:15

It's just after 8:00 and I have been up for over an hour, having almost missed the sunrise before 7:00.  I could tell it was late getting up because our bedroom was beginning to fill with light.  It's a chilly morning, temperatures in the teens when I got up, much warmer now at 25º.  Some of the neighboring communities (Allegehney County) are still without power, a result of up to two feet of wet snow.

A Beautiful Female Cardinal

Saturday was typical, a wide open day where we had little we had to do.  We did gather the trash, clean out the fridge, empty the wastebaskets by 10:00 and I was off to the Transfer Station by 9:30.  It always a good feeling to get rid of it.  We left for Mayville around 11:10 because Evie had an appointment with a physical therapist at 11:30.  She was out by noon and we stopped at Tops afterwards, picking up a few things we probably didn't need but hey, chips and dip are always necessities.

For lunch, we both were craving avocados, so Evie made us bacon, avocado and tomato sandwiches. Lunch cannot get much better than that.   I watched some basketball but quickly got bored, then watched Bloodline, got bored and finished my Ed Mc Bain novel.  Evie mostly relaxed, taking it easy on her back though she was tempted to bake something.  Around 2:30, our good friends, Richard and Carolyn, having read our blog and seen the snow and cold we were having, called to gloat over their great weather in La La Land, just north of Sacramento.  We talked with both of them for about an hour, about the good old days when we both taught and lived on the Robert College campus in Turkey in 1970's.  And I will say it again, those were the days.

Rick And Carolyn, Island Of Crete,  Summer, 1976

It was a lovely afternoon, like Friday, with lots of sunshine so I took a short walk late afternoon through the campground, desolate and snow covered, not a soul in sight, only a couple of snowmobile trailers.  It was cold enough that by the time I got home, my hands were frozen because of my good looking but useless new gloves.

Around 6:00, Evie put the leftovers from Friday night's dinner, the potato/onion/cheese casserole and half of a rotisserie chicken in the oven and we enjoyed a beer or glass of wine with appetizers, pretzel rods dipped in onion dip.  There are hard to stop eating once you start.  Dinner was better than the night before, as leftovers usually are.  We watched Bill Maher's Real Time and his satire brought out our only belly laughs of the week.  I don't think comics have ever had such a rich tapestry of the absurd as that created by Trump and his White House antics.  We ended the evening with a couple of more episodes of THE KILLING, as they run down two more dead ends and are on their third dead end as we stopped.