A Discouraging Overcast, Windy, And Wet Morning

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7:37

Sleet At 9:00

It's 7:43, the lake's a choppy gray, its color matching the sky and we will have showers on and off most of the morning, in some areas, maybe snow.  It's 37º and not a good day for a paddle or even a hike this morning.

On The Road Again

Early Spring Hike

A Quiet Beauty

Yesterday was chilly, with a biting wind but sunny most of the day.  I woke wanting to do something different outside so after our coffee and writing the blog, I decided to drive nine miles to the Brown's Creek Tributary Forest Preserve, over in Ellery.  It was too early for Evie so I went off by myself.  We had walked the trail in the fall and really liked it.  It's interesting how different it is in spring, leafless, wet, just barren trees jutting up into the sky.  I walked for only thirty-five minutes down the trail to its end at an asphalt road and back.  I thought it was longer than that; perhaps I took the wrong trail.  Regardless, it was settling to be in nature, oblivious to the politics and hysteria and fear that covers the world.

A Gurgling Brown's Creek

Still Worth A Walk

We both wanted to get back to some semblance of normal which meant that since it was Sunday, we wanted to have a big breakfast.  So Evie fried up some bacon, eggs, and served it with a bagel as we watched out Sunday TV show, CBS Sunday Morning.  After brunch, I called Ron, one of our good friends who lives in Maine and they had just returned from a week's vacation in Florida.  They are doing well and happy to be back home.

Social Distancing At Long Point?

We then took it easy, reading, napping, watching some TV or listening to The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, available on Sirius Radio.  It is still fun.  At 3:00,  I pulled out my yoga mat and practiced asanas for 35 minutes.  We then wanted to get out and breathe some of the cold air so we drove to Bemus and walked around the village.  Usually, we are the only ones out but we passed three or four other couples, like us, out to get some exercise after spending the day in isolation.

We both wanted an Asian dinner, so with Evie as my sous chef, I put together a pretty darn good chicken, shrimp, and vegetable stir fry, highlighted by hot bean sauce, soy, ginger, and garlic.  Served over rice, we were in our own Chinese restaurant.  It would have been perfect except that the self-pitying Propagandist in Chief was on TV for an hour and a half, bemoaning the fact that no one gives him credit for not taking his pay, for the fact that 'it cost him a fortune, billions of dollars because he became President. What a whiner.  I thought he was on TV to talk about ways to halt the Covid19 virus.  I guess not.

After dinner, Evie wanted to watch  Contagion, the most-watched film on TV recently, available on Amazon Prime for 3.99.  Although overdone, it mirrors many of the consequences of a pandemic that we are experiencing.  It did have a happy ending.  I hope the filmmakers are right.  We ended the night with another episode of The Americans.