Three Heron Morning

Great Blue Heron

6:58

Well, it's the Fourth of July, and the lake is surprisingly quiet, despite being the busiest holiday weekend on the lake. I paddled for about an hour, and shot photos of three different herons but no osprey or eagles. It was a chilly 57º when I walked outside but I loved it. 

Kayak Morning

Woodlawn Dock

Same Heron, Woodlawn Dock

Bemus Bay

Above The Reeds

Thursday was a get ready for the fourth kind of day. It began with an early paddle, starting at 6:30 so that I could be back in time to go to Bemus Point for breakfast at 8:00. As I mentioned yesterday, the Lake Life Cafe was busy but we were able to get served quickly and sit at our table. When I got home, I finished the blog, grabbed my yoga blanket and cushion, and drove off for yoga at 10:00, stopping to see if my car was fixed on the way. It was. Yin yoga was great, and I left feeling energized, following Tara's dictum that morning, "Begin Again." I stopped at the ATM, then drove to Wegmans to pick up a four-hundred-dollar prescription (Elliquis) and a few goodies before fighting the traffic on the way home. When I returned Evie was resting on the porch, soaked with sweat from mowing the lawn. She smartly takes water breaks every 10 or 15 minutes. 

It was 12:30 when I got home and I had some of Evie's soup from the freezer and a toasted ham and cheese sandwich for lunch. I am still watching Capitani during lunch, then read and napped briefly. Around 2:30, Evie dropped me off at my mechanic's, and I picked up my car. It needed an alternator, thus the loss of power. It cost me six hundred bucks. So far, it was a thousand-dollar day. On my way home, I stopped in Mayville at the Ironworks, where my aluminum ladder was getting a two-step extension so that Evie and the girls could more easily get up from the lake onto the dock. It cost me two hundred bucks, making it an easy $1200.00 day. Thank goodness I will be getting tax cuts from Trump's Big Beautiful Bill!

We celebrated our busy day as usual with wine on our porch.  It had cooled down enough to make it pleasant sitting outside. Around 6:00, Evie air-fried both parmesan potatoes and haddock, made a salad and we had a tasty dinner, especially the parmesan potatoes. We watched three more episodes of The Resident, the last one so cheesy we vowed to stop watching the series. We won't. Evie went up to bed at 9:00 leaving me to watch my series and the news before joining her.