Back To The Routine

7:13

8:00

It's 7:40 as I start this and I have been up for an hour, on a striking morning, the sky filled with slow-moving clouds highlight a blue sky, the lake calm but wrinkled. It's chilly, 36º, perfect for a paddle because of the lack of wind. It's just after 9:00 as we finish the blog.  I did get in a good paddle for forty minutes, my usual paddle, down to Wells Bay and back.  No interesting birds to speak of, just a few rafts of mallards floating by and crows both in the trees and along the shoreline. 

Kayak Morning

Victoria/Woodlawn

Southern Sky

Yesterday, Monday, we thanked ourselves for having the foresight to drive home on Sunday because the roads Monday here and in Pennsylvania were wet, icy, the skies filled with snow or sleet. It was a miserable morning here of wet snow or sleet so I didn't get out on the lake.  Evie for some reason was full of energy and got many things done in the morning to her delight.  I was slow-moving but by 10:30, I drove to Mayville to pick up some ground chuck for chili.  When I returned home, Evie already had the fixings for chili sauteeing in the pot and all she needed to do was add the meat and tomatoes.  She made enough to last us for a few days at least so much will be frozen to be enjoyed later.

I had her veggie soup for lunch along with tuna sandwiches and it was good to be back to my matinee, Foyle's War. Most of the afternoon we spent relaxing, either reading, napping, or watching TV until 4:00 when we both got busy and organized our downstairs closet and pantry.  I also took a short walk around the neighborhood just to get some fresh air and I needed it.

We enjoyed a Manhattan, well-earned, and appetizers, a couple of good cheeses and crackers before time for dinner.  We had the chili, on top of toasted pita bread and lettuce, topped with sour cream and cheese. Yum. And we watched the latest Netflix thriller, Don't Look Up, an end of the world flick. It's worth watching even though its message is obvious.  Those who ignore science, the facts, let politics or money enter into decision making, doom our planet to the extinction of one sort or another.  In this case, a comet destroys life on earth because of political greed, incompetence, science deniers, and the lies told by some of the news stations. Sound familiar? 

“Time passes. memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms, to what we think we remember,” writes the late novelist, Joan Didion.  How true.