It's 8:40, and I was out on the lake for an hour. I was surprised at the lack of action — just a few guys out casting at the docks. I paddled down Woodlawn, across to Tom's Point, where I shot a heron and ducklings, then back past Sandy Bottom and home. A good way to spend the morning.
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| Kayak Morning |
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| Kicking Back, Paddling North |
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| Great Blue At Long Point |
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| Heron With Duckling |
Saturday turned out to be a good day. Not a lot on the agenda, but we got a few things done. I started with an early paddle, returning around 8:15, and we discussed our day over coffee. At 5:00 we had a gathering of our Woodlawn neighbors to discuss various topics, and we usually bring an appetizer. Evie searched through recipes and landed on baguettes toasted in butter and maple syrup, topped with brie. It sounded good, but we needed baguettes and brie, so after my trip to the Transfer Station I decided to swing by Wegmans. By 10:00 I was dropping off the trash and on my way to a busy Wegmans. I only needed a few things, so I was in and out fairly quickly and headed home.
Before lunch, we decided it was time to take the canvas curtain down from the back porch. I got out the ladder, and with Evie's help I undid the clasps and we pulled down the curtain, carefully folded it so as not to crease the windows, and tucked it under a bed in one of the bedrooms. One more thing off my spring to-do list! We also rolled up the curtain on the front porch.
Lunch was egg salad sandwiches, a nice break from my kuru fasulye. I watched another episode of The Agency, then went upstairs and tried to nap but ended up reading instead — still working through These Truths. We wasted much of the rest of the afternoon on our phones or reading, though I did get in some weeding and watering when I got bored. Evie, meanwhile, put together our appetizer, and we hoped everyone would like it.
By 5:00 we were on our way to the meeting of Woodlawn neighbors. It's always fun, since many of our neighbors are summer people we don't see during the winter months. We spent a good half hour just getting reacquainted and catching up before a brief informational meeting. We voted on raising our dues to $250 a summer, since snow plowing has been depleting our bank account. We stayed until 6:45 and came home with an empty appetizer plate — everyone seemed to love it and wanted the recipe.
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| Porching It |
We sat on the front porch until 8:30, watching the blue sky fade. Evie went to bed, and I watched the England/Ghana match until I got bored by the lack of action, then watched another episode of The Agency before turning in.
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| Sky |
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| Clouds |
These Truths: I'm still early in our history, and it's not a pretty picture. Along with devastating the Native American population, we imported millions of enslaved people. Slavery seemed to contradict Christianity, creating a problem of conscience for the early settlers. Unlike Spain and France, which assimilated native populations to a greater degree, we largely avoided it. Eventually, the colonists arrived at a solution to their moral problem with slavery: they invented the idea of "race," a social construct that let them enslave Black people on the premise that they were simply inferior, not human.
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