Tuesday 10.21.2008

I slept pretty good, awake a few times. I did wake up about dawn and watched the sunrise over a rippled lake and clear sky. I dozed back off after a bit.

When I woke again it was close to 0900. Kathy wasn’t up yet. The sun was up, a few clouds were moving in, and the north wind had picked up. So much so that there were whitecaps on the lake. More like wave action than wind action.

We breakfasted and had a quiet morning. We went over to her parents’ place, visited some, then brought her mother back to our place for a couple hours.

We had some “girl time”—KS and Mary sat at the table and peeled and sliced apples while I mixed up a cake and readied the pans for an apple upside-down cake. With that in the oven, we then fixed grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup and had ourselves a lovely lunch.

The cakes were done and out of the oven and flipped over, sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon—yum.

They had cooled some, and I fixed a plate for Mary to take home, and she and Kathy Sue left. I washed up the lunch dishes.

KS came back and we had some “downtime”. She rested and I looked at lighting the pilot on the furnace again. After talking with Kathy’s dad Keith and my Daniel, and I had watched the guy from the gas company light it, I checked it all over again, starting at the tank outside and following the line in. I was still unable to get it lit. Oh well. We do have a radiant heater thing that is working well, so we don’t really need the furnace on.

The wind has slowed down some and the sky has cleared. Kathy suggested we go for a drive around the lake, and we did. Beautiful.

Back at the Cabin, we fixed dinner and ate, then cleaned up the kitchen and wound down for the night.

Tomorrow, KS needs to leave before noon, and I’ll be a couple hours behind her.

Thank you for reading. Hugs.