Sunny And Seven Below

Another sunny morning...I could get used to this even if it is bitterly cold.  I drove off to Mayville to get a blood test this morning, and it was amazing as the sun was almost blinding on the lake, and all the trees were frozen, so everything looked like an ice pageant, trees, shrubs, bushes, and the lake, all white or reflecting glass.  We hope to go out cross country skiing at Dobbins Woods, once it  gets a bit warmer.

We had the salesmen from Tordella's over this morning, to measure for a carpet, so we have a firm price, a good idea of how much it will cost to do our downstairs carpeting.  My guess is it will come in around $2000.00 for everything, carpet, pad, installation, and disposal of the old carpet.  We have narrowed out choices down to a couple of colors, both are a  bit darker than what we have, something between and ivory and beige,  I think, but a Frieze, which has a bit of a shag look and feel to it.  It will be much softer and richer than what we now have.  Well, as usual, I was way off; they quoted around $3200 after yesterday's somewhere around 2000.00, which was too good to be true.  This place is not the most organized in terms of pricing, as one hand does not seem to know what the other hand is doing.

I just got back from cross country skiing on the lake, in blinding sun, as it reflected off of the snow.  It was a spectacular day on the lake, as I was the only soul in sight as I skied, following, when possible, snow mobile tracks.  It also had warmed up from the seven below this morning, to 32 when I went out.  There were a few fishermen off of Long Point and a single snow mobiler went by as I skied.  This is the kind of day you have to enjoy since they are so infrequent up here and we have had two days in a row like this, clear skies, sun, and polar cold.  Tomorrow, it warms up even more, with a mix of rain and snow in the morning, getting into the 40's in late afternoon, another thaw.