A Fine Morning

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It's just 6:00 and the sunrise is partially hidden by clouds on a quiet morning on the lake.  A few purple martins are singing, it's 57º, and the lake is smooth and gray, ready for a paddle. I was out for an hour, before breakfast in Bemus, paddling over to Tom's Point and back, a good start to the day.

Kayak Morning

Heron Off Of Tom's Point

Yesterday was a normal Wednesday, with a good hour of kayaking, then yoga class with Jen and coffee at Ryder's Cup.  Evie needed a few things from Wegman's so I stopped there again and was delighted to see how quiet it was after 5% Tuesdays.  I also did not want Evie to bother with lunch so I picked up a hoagie so we could split it when I returned home.  

Evie had a bad night, so she was not her usual busy self although she did get a couple of things done outside, like spray painting our wrought iron table and four chairs.  They look great, like new and it did not take her long.  It was a surprisingly windy afternoon so we never did make it out on the dock, preferring to either sit on the porch and read or the side yard and catch some sun.  It was an easy and leisurely afternoon until about 5:00 when Evie put together our dinner of chicken tikka masala.  Once that and the rice was done, we were able to enjoy a glass of wine on the front porch before dinner.  We ended up talking for quite a while with our neighbors two daughters, Cris and Kathy, up for a visit with their parents.  It was good to catch up with their lives, one in Maine the other in Kentucky.

Dinner was good, of course, the chicken tikka marsala made better by a couple of dollops of yogurt and we had a salad.  We watched the first episode on HBO of Years And Years, set in Great Britain, a satire on what the world might be like when Trump and his anti immigration, nationalistic policies, gets a second term and starts a nuclear war with China.  It's both funny and not so funny, even scary.  There are six episodes, one each Sunday. It follows a bizarre family, the modern  21st century family I guess with gay and mixed-race marriages, old codgers, and trans children, a look into the future that scares the hell out of populists both here and abroad.  We ended the night with Colbert and the first forty-five minutes of the Democratic debate.