Hazy and Lazy Days

6:21

It's 8:10 and I have been on the water for forty minutes after a spectacular morning, clear skies, an empty lake, and little wind. Evie's up and out already working in her garden as it's the perfect time of day to be out there, a garden mostly now in shade.

Kayak Morning

Preening By Campgournd

Yesterday was perhaps the laziest we have been recently, perhaps because we were going to the Chautauqua Institution at 1:00 for a lecture.  So after kayaking and the blog, we hung out much of the morning.  I was up too early and fell asleep watching the Olympic volleyball team play at 10:30.  I woke in time to have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch.  Evie, too, enjoyed the morning and by 12:15, we were ready to drive over to the CI for the lecture.  

Brick Walk

We were able to get both a destination pass, which allows you to enter the CI free of charge for four hours.  If you want to go to the lecture in the Amphitheater, it cost us 15 bucks apiece. A friend of mine from college (we lived on the same floor in our dorm, Lincoln Hall, my sophomore year at Ohio University). His name is Michael Krasny and he's a well-known commentator on Sirum Radio's/NPR Forum, as well as an English professor at San Francisco State University. He just retired this past Spring and San Francisco honored him with Michael Krasny Day.  

Michael Krasny

He spoke on Jewish humor, the theme this week at the CI being "The Authentic Comedic Voice."  His lecture was funny as well as interesting, the audience loving his telling and then analysis of Jewish jokes.  I was able to speak to him after the lecture for a few minutes and he remembered our days at Lincoln Hall, even singing Lincoln Hall's song.  It was good to see him and I forgot to mention that I had enjoyed his first book, Off Mike, having read it when it came out ten years ago,

When we returned him, it was uncomfortably hot and humid outside, so we stayed in, windows closed, reading or watching more Olympics until 5:00 when we went next door for cocktails and appetizers to celebrate the closing of Joyce and Bill's house in Philadephia. Pat and Dave, neighbors from Victoria were also there and we had a pleasant cocktail hour and a half until it was time for dinner.  We had steak, egg, and potatoes for dinner, with sweet corn, just right.  We watched a couple of more episodes of Lillehammer and are still not taken with it as the same sort of conflict develops over and over again.  The solution always seems to be some sort of violence or threat.  We may or may not stick with it.