Cold But Sunny With Blue Skies

7:43

It's just 8:00, and we are both up, on our devices, enjoying coffee. I paddled for 50 minutes, down to Sandy Bottom and back, and saw no waterfowl, just a few seagulls diving into the lake. It was 38º when I started to kayak, so we avoided a freeze.

Kayak Moroing

Into The Sun

Monday was a different day in that neither of us had anything we had to do. I did get in a good paddle before 8:00, as I was up early. Since I had no yoga, I decided to fill my morning with coffee at Ryders Cup at 9:30 and spend an hour with the guys. Paul is always there, and Neal occasionally is. Both were there yesterday, and we talked about our lives abroad and basketball. After coffee, I stopped at Walmart because I needed a pump needle to pump up a couple of buoys I just bought. I was going to look for a chuck roast for Memorial Day but the entire meat section was empty, not sure why  So I purchased my pump needle and then to drove Tom and Julie's to pick up a couple of bags of sauerkraut. They live on 67 acres just outside of Mayville. They have a pond and mostly woods so we took a walk around their property before I headed home with four bags of homemade sauerkraut. Yum

Good Friends, Julie And Tom

I was home by 12:30, ready for lunch, so I heated up a chicken pot pie and watched another episode of The Killing. Then, as usual, I read some and napped until 2:30 just as Evie fired up the lawn mower and started cutting the grass. I read until she took a break and went out and cut for 15 minutes until she returned and finished up. Everything looks so green this time of the year, especially the lawn. After mowing, I worked on filling some low spots with topsoil and sand, topped it with grass seeds, roughed it up with a rake, and watered it. Let's hope it makes a difference.

We had our wine time at 5:00, listened to the big news, Biden's cancer diagnosis, and the analysis by the pundits before dinner. We had little fuss because we pulled the turkey chili out of the freezer, warmed it up in the microwave, boiled noodles, and had a tasty Cincinnati chili, topped with cheese. We watched a Hometown, some of the news, channel surfed until Evie went up to bed at 8:30. Since there was no basketball on Monday, I watched two more episodes of The Killing, and I am getting close to the end. I stayed up until 10:30, late for me and then went up to read some before sleeping.