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Morning Pink |
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6:07 |
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6:38 |
Up at 6:00 to a partly cloudy sky, a typical sunrise of sun, clouds, and shimmery lake. It's 63º, some breeze, and we did get some rain overnight, just enough to wet the ground. It's 9:10 and I was out for an hour, starting with a brilliantly sunny morning, ending with an overcast sky. I shot an osprey seemingly picking at a tree limb, looking for insects perhaps. And I shot an old guy, a heron, hanging in a tree
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Kayak Morning |
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Osprey Picking |
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Hunkering Down |
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A Good Old Boy |
Yesterday was another leisurely day as neither of us slept well so we had no big plans for the day other than get through it. I did make myself go for a paddle and drive to yoga class. It was a good choice because I felt much better after class. When I got home, Evie had been busy getting things ready for lunch because our niece Kirsten's son, Connor, was stopping over after looking at a cottage on the lake which he is thinking of buying. We expected him at 1:00 but he went to the house first so he arrived at 2:00 which was no big deal right. It's not like we had anything we had to do. We had lunch on the porch and sat around talking with him until 4:00. He's been out of college a year, seems happy enough with his job and playing and coaching volleyball, his favorite sport. I tried to talk him into thinking about going to Europe and playing volleyball. After all he's footloose and fancy-free, without a wife or three kids to hold him back like it 'didn't' me. He seemed interested but it's a big decision. He's the kind of kid that's more interested in living than making lots of money.
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Connor |
We then sat out on the dock while he went for a swim and had a beer until we were chased in by a thunderstorm. He then headed up to Euclid, a two-hour ride, in the rain, the same way he came and in the rain. Since we had a late lunch, neither one of us felt much like dinner, so we sat on the front porch reading, having some wine, until 7:00 when we finally decided to have our lunch for dinner, a hot dog, beans, salad, and tuna and macaroni salad. It was just enough and no fuss. We watched Anderson Cooper's hour-long interview with Stephen Colbert. Colbert is brilliant, thoughtful and empathetic. When asked a question, he really thinks hard about what he wants to say. He's such a striking contrast to the idiot in the White House that it was depressing. We ended the night with his late-night show. We went up to bed early, hoping to have a good night.
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