Just Another Day At The Lake

Better Together

7:37

It's 6:47 and I have been up since 5:30, alas, and it's still pitch black outside and drizzling. Once it gets lighter, I hope to be out on the lake kayaking, whether it's drizzling or not. It's unseasonably warm, 59º, and may get up to 70º later in the day. Well, it's 7:00 and I finished writing the first draft of the blog but it's still dark out and drizzling so no paddling yet. Sunday the time changes so I will be out at this time. 

Kayak Morning

Northern Sky

South

Same Guy, Say Tree

Male Mallard

Mallard

Yesterday was a great day and it was so good to be home doing something. I paddled for a half hour and was able to find a great blue heron hunkering down in a tree, his usual spot, and took a photo of him. After breakfast and the blog, we decided to clean our back porch and put up our winter curtain. It's something we do every fall, taking it down every spring. It seems to be a fad around here especially at the Chautauqua Institution where almost every house has a winter porch curtain, some 20 or 30 feet high. It took us about an hour to give the porch a good cleaning but only ten minutes to put up the curtain. 

Once that was done, Evie made me a cheese sandwich for lunch and I finished up the veggie soup from last week and watched The Wire. I tried to nap to no avail and spent a leisurely afternoon reading on and off. We decided the lawn needed mowing, really the leaves needed mulching, so I mulched part of the front yard for 15 minutes, and then Evie finished it up. By dinner time, it was filled with leaves once again and we will mulch it one more time today.

Happy Hour On Our Porch

Dusk

We had our happy hour out on our front porch and it was what the photographers call the Golden Hour, perfect light for photos. So we sat out for an hour, enjoying a good cheese and crackers as well as hummus and veggies and wine. The geese were swarming, the moon came out, and the sun lit up the opposing shore so were happy. 

6:42

Canadian Geese

A Bevy Of Geese

October Moon

Dinner was the leftover chicken parm and spaghetti and even better than the night before. We watched Stephen Colbert because his guests were one of our favorite groups, The Talking Heads. It was the 40th anniversary of their great concert film, Stop Making Sense. Evie and I took two vans of Reserve students to the Cedar And Lee Theater in Cleveland Heights, Ohio,  to see the film back in the 1980s. It's been remade in 4K and is showing in Imax theaters. We would love to see it once again. We ended the night watching the first half of the Bills win over Tampa Bay on Prime.