Paddling In A Drizzle

Female Mergansers, Midafternoon 

One Month Ago

7:22

It's 9:00 and I have been up since 6:30 on a damp, overcast, 41º morning.  It's not exactly a great morning for kayaking but I went out anyways, on what is becoming my morning constitutional.  I scared off rafts of buffleheads, got a shot of a loon and that's about it.

By the way, A plane from Shanghai arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York Sunday morning carrying an extraordinary load: 12 million gloves, 130,000 N95 masks, 1.7 million surgical masks, 50,000 gowns, 130,000 hand sanitizer units, and 36,000 thermometers.  Just saying. 

Kayak Morning

Loon Alone

A Common Male Merganser

Yesterday was forecast to rain most of the day but we must have missed it; we did get some wind, a brief shower but for the most part, we had partly cloudy skies.  After my morning paddle, we decided to get out and drove over to Long Point State Park. We parked by the marina and walked out to the point and back, noticing that others had the same idea.  Usually, we are the only ones hiking but because of the quarantine, lots of families are getting out and enjoying the park for perhaps the first time.  We walked just over a mile, just right for Evie.

Long Point Path

I was anxious to get home after our walk because Evie had gotten the bacon out before we left for our big Sunday morning breakfast.  I was also looking forward to watching CBS Sunday morning.  Both breakfast and CBS Sunday were great, just what we needed to satisfy our mid-day hunger for food and entertainment.

Spring Time At Long Point

We spent the rest of the afternoon inside, watching the weather alerts, moving the cars because of heavy winds and a storm which missed us, fortunately.  I finished my James Lee Burke's novel, too long with a weak ending.  I started American Dirt, a hot new book because it's an Oprah book but I am not sure about it.  I will stick with it but I am not ready for this kind of book right now. It's already violent and depressing and I don't think it's going to ger much better. Late afternoon, the clouds disappeared and the sun came out, brightening the day.

Long Point At 5:50

We were having spaghetti and meatballs for dinner, easy because Evie had pulled her homemade meatballs out of the freezer early in the day and just added a jar of pasta sauce and we had a good dinner.  We had the spaghetti along with a salad and garlic bread and watched Trump's incoherent rambling Daily Reality Show until we could take it no longer.  We then watched 60 Minutes and a couple of episodes of The Americans although we are getting bored with it.  We were both tired from our day of doing little other than sitting around and went up to bed early.


Trump:  Jan 21st: "We have it totally under control.  It's one person coming in from China, and we have it under control.  It's going to be just fine."

Trump: Sunday, March 29th:

"You’re talking about 2.2 million deaths (In US). 2.2 million people from this. If we can hold that down as we’re saying, to 100,000, it’s a horrible number. Maybe even less, but to 100,000, so we have between 100 and 200,000, we all together have done a very good job. 2.2, up to 2.2 million deaths and maybe even beyond that? I’m feeling very good about what we did last week."