Windy Morning With A Pink Sky

7:09

7:10

It's 7:00 and a nice breeze is keeping me cool in the living room, ruffling up the lake, keeping the flag flying.  It's 56º and looks like it will be a fine fall day, sunny and cool.  And, for the first time, we began to see fallen leaves on our front yard, a harbinger of what's to come...winter.  It's 8:44 and I am eating breakfast, getting ready for yoga, finishing up the blog after a windy forty five minute paddle. 

Kayak Morning

A Great Blue

Long Point

Cormorant

Yesterday was different from most Monday's as I was up early to say aloha to our friends who spent Sunday night with us.  Once they were on their way to New Jersey, I couldn't resist kayaking because the lake was so calm, no boats, no wind, just me.  After the paddle, we finished up the blog and had breakfast and I decided to bag yoga.  It just felt too good to stay home and chill out, basically do nothing.  Evie, too, was into relaxing so the morning went quickly, with a bit of cleanup and some reading.  It felt strange to both of us to waste the morning.

For lunch, I had some lentil soup and watched my show, read some then fell asleep reading my new book, THE SECRET HISTORY by Donna Tartt, author of the best selling THE GOLDFINCH.  I had an appointment for a consultation with a plastic surgeon in Buffalo at 2:30 we left at 1:00, an hour and a half ride.  He scheduled a minor surgery in two weeks to get rid of an early-stage melanoma on my arm.  He will cut a chunk the size of a half dollar out of arm and I will be unable to kayak or enjoy yoga for a couple of weeks because of the stitches.  Just another necessary bother.

So we wasted much of the afternoon on the road but stopped in Fredonia at Tuscany, a neat deli and picked up a few things we did not need but thought we would like.  And we stopped at a tomato stand on the side of the road, talked with a guy who was buying four or five bags of them.  He told us these were the best tomatoes in Chautauqua County so we bought a bag for $4.50 but have yet to have them.

We were home at 5:00 and couldn't wait to sit on the front porch with a glass of wine, pretzels and onion dip, our new easy and favorite appetizer.  Around 6:30, Evie started to prep dinner, making a salad, microwaving a couple of ears of corn, and heating up the leftover pasta and eggplant from our Saturday night at Rocco's.  We finished THE SPY, with an expected but heartbreaking ending unless you were Syrian.  And we started a new series, also heart-rending, called UNBELIEVABLE about a serial rapist.  Each episode deals with the harrowing experience of the victims.  I finished the evening watching the Browns for a half-hour, not the most exciting of games.