going for a drive...

We live north of the Finger Lakes, and our last ride was around the whole of Owasco Lake. This time we headed to Cayuga Lake. We drove by the state park, and by the beautiful houses on the water. We drove by the smashed up businesses that the local Native Americans disputed, one group destroying a small store/gas station, a day care center, and a school house, a cannery, miniature golf, and several cottages. What a mess. We drove to a creamery, where the ice cream is home made. We waited outside, got our ice cream, and got back in the van with it.

We stopped at our favorite winery, thought maybe we could get just one bottle of Cayuga Lake Diamond, but...

Closed!

So we stopped at a different one. You call them from the parking lot, pay on the phone, and they bring it out and set it down on the sidewalk. It felt like a drug deal. But we have two bottles of lovely local wine.

It was a nice day for a ride, rainy and chilly, but it's cleared up, so we took our evening walk. Then dinner: nachos, taco salad....yum.

Sonja and I did the grocery shopping early this morning. We went into Wegmans for chicken, burger, seltzer. Then Aldi for some veggies, tortilla chips, fresh salsa, bacon, orange juice. It's still so strange to go into the stores and have everyone in masks. I think it's worse, they don't tend to maintain a 6 foot distance, it's like with masks, they feel less vulnerable.

We use our hand sanitizer, and our disinfectant wipes: wipe down our phones, our glasses, our steering wheel, door handles, shopping cart handles. It's all we can do, right? And pray. We pray for our leaders, and for our friends and the old people and the sick. We pray for mercy and wisdom and that we can be long-suffering and humble. And we use our time wisely, to get oil in our lamps, and to bless, and to learn.