A Bright Shiny Lake Morning

6:51

8:02

It's 8:12, and I just returned from a good hour's paddle down Woodlawn, across and along the shore of Long Point, then across to Sandy Bottom, where my good kayak friends Tina and Jim live. We talked for ten minutes; they've been up all week enjoying the sun and warm weather. 

Kayak Morning

Canadian Geese Along Shoreline

Yesterday, Thursday, I think, was a busy morning. It started with coffee at Lake Life Cafe in Bemus until 9:00. When I returned, I kayaked for the first time in a while, spent 45 minutes out, and was lucky to get a photo of a heron. I came home, wrote the blog, let Evie read it, and published it around 10:15. Because I have a couple of doctor's appointments next week and needed a blood test, I drove to Jamestown and quickly got it done — the only one in the office. I then drove to Wegmans and did quite a bit of shopping, running into one of my former students, who knew Rami had passed, and my yoga teacher. I was home just after 12:00, and Evie helped put away the groceries. Wanting an easy lunch, I microwaved a chicken pot pie and watched some TV.

Our Rhododendrons 

By 1:00, I was tired — especially since I'd been up so early — so I went upstairs and read my new book, Butcher's Crossing by John Williams, a cowboy story set in the late 1800s. I napped briefly, then felt like getting some things done outside. Evie was out in a yard chair, enjoying the sun, then the shade. For some reason, our dock guys had left the rowboat in the yard, so I tugged and pulled it down to the lake and tied it up to the dock. I then powered up the mower and cut the grass in the back yard around the garden, and did a bit of weeding. There's so much of it that we're going to hire our good friend Austin to help. Around 4:30, Evie put together dinner — a pasta with mushrooms and meatballs — and by 5:15, we were enjoying appetizers and wine on the front porch. 

Wine Time

What a luxury. By 7:00, we were having our pasta dinner, along with a salad, and watched Caitlin Clark's Indiana team defeat Atlanta.  After the game ended, and I watched some junk TV until 10:00, then went up to bed to read.