Foggy Thursday

Those Were The Days: Istanbul, 1976

6:54

It's 7:15, and we are both up, yawning and drinking our coffee, occasionally sharing something funny from our devices. It's 46º, and the lawns are green; the snowbanks are disappearing.

Wednesday turned out to be a good day because I received a text from my neighbor, Jim, around 8:30, asking if I wanted to hike along Chautauqua Creek to Lake Erie. We didn't leave until 10:00, so we both had a leisurely morning of coffee, the news, and the blog. Evie had a doctor's appointment in Westfield at 10:40, so we were both on our way north by 10:00. It was foggy most of the way, but the sun came out briefly as we passed the vineyards and a view of Lake Erie on Hardscrabble Road. 

Chautauqua Creek

Fishermaan

Rocky Mouth Of The Chautauqua Creek

It's a short walk out to Lake Erie along the creek, maybe a quarter of a mile. Huge ice boulders and blocks hugged the shoreline as the water rushed toward Lake Erie. Midway, a guy was out fishing, and when we reached the beach, an older man and his dog were sitting on a log, enjoying the view of the lake. The lake is still frozen for at least a quarter of a mile out to open water. Last week, the ice jams blocked the river, so the town had to get a huge tractor to make a pathway through the ice to open waters so the land and beach would not be overwhelmed by the creek water. We also ran into an older woman walking her dog, so three dogs were frolicking on the beach. We walked down towards Barcelona on a beach of rocks but had seen enough after about ten minutes and walked back to the car. Unfortunately, the skies were gray during our hike, and if we had waited an hour, it would have been under blue skies.

Man, Hank And Ripley

Path Through Ice Mounds

Ice

Rocky Beach

Evie was home when I returned and gave me an update on her visit to her doctor. She had blood drawn and had a good visit. For an easy lunch, I heated up a Maria Callendar chicken pot pie and enjoyed it while watching my series, Hit and Run. After lunch, I read, napped, and like Evie, enjoyed the leisure of a sunny afternoon. We had our wine at 5:00 and listened to Jake Tapper on CNN lay out the Trump administration's lies and lack of organization and planning. No surprise. We watched a Colbert, then another episode of Landman, before Evie went up to bed, and I watched a couple of episodes of Hit and Run. Its main character is Daron from Fauda, if you watched that series.

Afternoon Blue At 3:40

Still Fishing As Ice Melts

"Six months ago, the American people were told that we used B-2 ‘bunker buster’ bombs to completely obliterate and destroy Iran’s nuclear program, and anybody who said otherwise was fake news. Now we have been told that somehow in six months, they were able to restart the program. Now we’re told we’ve completely destroyed it again. So my question to the administration—and I think it’s a question that a lot of American people, certainly under 35, have—is: If all of that has been done, why are we still there? Caroline Sunshine, Former Trump Campaign Deputy Comms Director