Light Rain And Dark Skies

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6:41

7:35

It’s 7:34 and we’ve been up since 7:00. I kayaked for only a few minutes before realizing I had breakfast in Bemus at 8:00, and our friend Austin will be here at 9:00 to help with some yard work.

Kayak Morning

Yesterday was maybe the last day of Indian summer, or whatever you want to call the past ten days to two weeks. I had a good paddle, of course, for close to an hour, then finished up the blog and had breakfast. I didn’t have much mojo, so I decided on an easy ride. I drove to the Chautauqua Institution and rode its perimeter for 50 minutes. It was a beautiful morning to ride, quite often through the leaves waiting on the street to be sucked up by a vacuum truck. I was home around 11:30 and did some raking of the leaves from our tulip trees in the side yard. They are so large and crisp that it’s difficult to mulch them.

Thunder Bridge

University Beach Park

Bestor Plaza

Evie left to get her hair cut around 12:30, and I heated up the last of the brats and sauerkraut and some black bean soup for lunch and watched my show. I then finished my book, which had a ridiculous ending. It’s the last time I take a recommendation from TikTok. I tried to nap, then started a new book, The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson. Evie returned around 3:00, having made a couple of stops after her trim. I read until 4:00, then went out and mulched my neighbors’ yard, thick with leaves. I made some progress, but it could certainly use another swipe with the mower.

A Relaxing Afternoon

We had a great wine time, of course, as everyone was talking about the Blue Tsunami. It’s still shocking to see how thoroughly the Trump agenda and Trump himself were discarded by voters. It restored my faith in Americans. For dinner, Evie had put a pork roast in the slow cooker at 1:00, and we ate around 6:30 with mashed potatoes and Brussels sprouts, a typical autumn dinner. We loved it. We watched TV until 8:00, then some basketball, but I also finished Mayor of Kingstown, one of the most violent endings to a series, with a prison riot put down and hundreds killed. Wow. I was ready to sleep after that.