Waking To Rain, Again

Frolicking Wood Ducks

6:22

8:21

It's 6:55 and the rain has stopped although the lake is gray, the sky is still dark with rain clouds, and a mist hanging over the shoreline. It is 8:30 and I paddled for close to 50 minutes, under an amazing sky, with lots of clouds but also patches of blue, some sun, and even rain for a few minutes. 

Kayak Morning

Northern Sky

Clouds

Monday was typical in that we had little on our agenda that we had to do. I got in a paddle for close to an hour, wrote the blog, and then was not sure what to do with myself. It was solved when a couple of guys came by to survey our property, the first step in the process of our possibly building a garage. They were here for a couple of hours and were able to find most of the stakes from our previous survey in 1978. My only exercise was a walk up our hill and back, a 15-minute jaunt of just under a mile. I am reading the newest Gabriel Allon book by David Silva, his 22nd and I am pretty sure I have read them all.

Lunch was a couple of egg salad sandwiches on toast and I am now officially into Game of Thrones. It's helped to read a summary of the first two episodes on Wikipedia, so I get things clear.  Around 12:30, my buddy Ron stopped over. He is driving to DC and wanted to know our route through much of the Allegheny Forest and back roads of PA, a much more pleasant drive than #79 to the Pa Turnpike. When he left, Evie took off to Westfield to get X-rays of her knees which have been bothering her. I did little other than reading and napped my usual early afternoon. When Evie returned, I felt guilty about being lazy so I drove over to Bemus, rode my bike for forty-five minutes, then drove to Petersons and picked up another basket of peaches, some tomatoes, and corn. 

Black Locust Trail

We did not get started on dinner until after 6:00 although Evie had the potatoes in the oven since 5:00. She then sauteed some mushrooms, made a salad, and grilled a couple of New York strips for our dinner. Nothing like steaks, mushrooms, baked potatoes, and a salad. We started a film for the second time called Tik Tik Boom but had enough after 15 minutes. I suggested we watch a new series called the Extraordinary Attorney Woo, a heartwarming saga from Korea. Woo is an autistic genius lawyer and because of her, we enjoyed the first two episodes despite their cliches and silliness. She is worth watching.