Thursday, Sept 17

 

Morning view of the lake. The geranium won't last much longer.

A plastic bag drying rack.  For all the times you wash out and reuse plastic bags.

We covered the beans because it was going to freeze.

Enjoying the nook in the morning.

Night Furry likes my bed.

Some of Jay's fish.

This is what our chicken squares from last night looked like. 

A pileated woodpecker came by.

We took our daily walk to go to the mailbox and to swing by the lake.

View from the kitchen window to the area Jay has been clearing.

We had a nice zoom call with Vivian.  Emmy could not join us this time.  Emmy and Vivian are 2 of my high school classmates who live in Portland.  We have a weekly zoom call.  That is been a real treat for me.

We went  into town to go see the movie "Tesla" at the State Theater for the 4 pm show.  This theater had been falling apart and had been closed as long as I have been coming here to visit.  Some billionaire bought up a bunch of the buildings downtown Ely and worked on renovating them.  His condition before finishing the renovations was that some one or group had to take on the management of the building.  It finally opened May 2019.  When COVID 19 hit they closed for a few months.

As a fund-raiser, people could "buy" a chair. Jeanne and Jay bought one in memory of Jay's parents.

When they reopened they had made some additionnal changes. The ticket program they have will only sell tickets where the seats are separated by 2 seats.  For the people who come together either have one person buy the tickets or you ignore the seat assignment and sit where you want.  That is what we did.  Everyone was wearing their masks.  We all went in one door and exited a different door.  Every other row was blocked off.  We did not buy any popcorn or beverages.  I think that there were 14 people in the theater. It felt very safe.

Tesla, is about the inventor, Nikolai Tesla.  I had not known anything about him or the movie.  So, now I know a little more about Tesla but I don't think that I would recommend the movie.  Very slow moving and confusing. 

After the movie we scurried home, quickly put together a spaghetti dinner, ate and then got  set up for a 7 pm zoom call with Sharon and Kris. That was also a fun zoom call.  Fun having the 4 travel buddies together.  

We had to cover the beans again, since it is to get down to freezing again.  There are really only a few beans left to harvest, so it would not be a big loss if the plants died.  But we are still trying to save them.

It was another relaxed day with our AQI of 20 ;-) !!  I sure feel for Oregon.