Good Morning, Chautauqua Lake

5:56

6:00

8:29

It's 8:30, a bright, sunny morning, a light breeze cooling as I kayaked for almost an hour and a half, to Long Point, Tom's Point, Lakeside Drive, Sandy Bottom, and home.  And I saw nary a bird so there are no interesting photos this morning. 

Kayak Morning

Tom's Point

Saturday was one of the busiest days on the lake so far, as it was packed with bass boats, jet skis, pontoon boats, and speed boats. If they weren't cruising, they were anchored off the shoreline, swimming, playing their music, playing frisbee, or just sunbathing. I had a busy morning. After a good paddle, breakfast, and the blog, I was off to Mayville for a bike ride before it got too hot. I was out for forty-five minutes, a good ride, not too hot because most of it was on trails with shade. After my ride, I did a quick shopping at Tops and talked with a good friend who just returned from a great trip to Yellowstone, leaving just as the floods arrived. They ended up traveling close to 6000 miles, out and back. 

North End Of Lake

Mayville Bike/Hiking Path

I was home by 12:30 and Evie was finishing up cutting our neighbor's yard. Lunch was the last of the Peruvian chicken and rice and another episode of Peaky Blinders. For the rest of the afternoon, we relaxed Evie on the dock enjoying the sun, me napping and reading. At 5:30, we walked to the Woodlawn right away for a neighborhood gathering and meeting. It's always nice to see everyone, especially those who don't live here full time.  

Everyone brings appetizers and we stand around enjoying the food, a libation, catching up on news from the past winter.  And we have a brief meeting, usually to remind people to pay their dues. We left around 7:00 and had planned to go out for dinner but neither of us felt like it so we ended up on the front porch, working through the new Shutterfly book. Around 7:00, we had egg salad sandwiches for dinner, my request, and watched the first two episodes of a Danish Series on PBS called Sunset Hotel, set in 1928. So far we like it enough to continue watching. We ended the night with another Real Time With Bill Maher.

Evie's Garden This Morning