Morning's Changing Colors

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7:47

It's 7:25 and we are both up because I have breakfast at 8:00 and Evie leaves for kindergarten earlier today because of Halloween. She is as excited as the kids probably are. It's 9:15 as I finish this after breakfast in Bemus. At the moment, the lake is perfect for kayaking but I will be going to yoga. 

Morning View At 9:00

Yesterday was a productive day for me, a day of rest for Evie who is still nursing a cough. I had a good paddle although I did not see any wildlife. I was in no hurry for once so I relaxed with another coffee and breakfast as I finished the blog. I wanted to get a few things done outside os by 10:00, with Evie's permission, I pulled all the dahlias out of the ground, the roots, bulbs and branches and filled up two garbage pails with the dead dahlias. It's sad to see them go because Evie has decided to plant something else next year because they were too much of a hassle for as little as they bloomed. I cleared some of the other beds of leaves and branches before lunch. 

Lunch was easy, the rest of the sub from Hogan's and another delicious bowl of Evie's soup. We never get tired of it, all veggies.  I watched another episode of Ridley then napped briefly before going out in the side yard and reading We Solve Murders for an hour. It was so warm that I was in just a Tee shirt. The area around the small maple was strewn with leaves so I raked them up, filling another pail. Then I fired up the electric mower, I mulched the side yard because it needed it. It took me all of 20 minutes and then I relaxed a bit more on my Adirondack chair before coming in and having a glass of wine with Evie at 5:00. 

Hooded Megansers Cruising In The Late Afternoon

Earlier in the day she had put together one of our favorite go-to meals, chicken with mushrooms and artichokes hearts. She had been making this since our days in Hawaii back in the late 1960s. She served it with rice and we watched Stephen Colbert and CNN. Evie went up to bed early, making sure to get lots of sleep before her kindergarten class this morning. It's going to be crazy because all the kids will be dressed up and the parents will have trick or treats for them in their trunks.