Cloudy, Mild, Chance of Snow Showers

Yesterday's Rainbow

Rainbow Over Bemus

Lake Melting From Bemus Lake Road

Another gray morning, up at 6:00, though surprisingly mild for this time of year, 34 degrees outside, and I head off to the dentist for an appointment at 8:15, to fill a small cavity.  Evie's coming along, to get a small procedure done as well and then we will head off to do our shopping in Lakewood before heading home.  I am not sure when we will get our walk in, perhaps after lunch or before dinner, but we need to do something each day for both our mental and physical health.  A lack of snow has thrown a wrench into our cross country skiing and snow shoeing.

We did take a long walk yesterday, along the Bemus lake road, three miles, one hour and it was pleasant enough as we avoided the rain; it was fairly mild, though walking back we faced the southerly wind that's so unusual for this time of year.  At least the road was clear, so we could walk easily, without fear of ice.  The weather all day was unusual, at times windy, the rainy, then clearing up in late afternoon, and enough sun to create a huge rainbow over the eastern sky around 5:00...amazing for this time of year.

Chillingsworth's pumpkin rolls

Evie spent a good part of the yesterday getting dinner ready for the Mc Clures and I went off to Tri James and picked up a couple of buckets of stones to fill in some of the pot holes in our Woodlawn Road, created by the water coming down off of Pine Hill Road.  For dinner, Evie made pumpkin rolls, which we first had some 46 years ago on our honeymoon on Cape Cod  We ate at a tres chic restaurant called Chillingsworth in Brewster, still functioning and famous, in a 300 year old building.  We loved it, the waiters and waitresses in 18th century dress, the ambiance, and the food... I think I had duck for the first time.  When I looked it up on Google, it was rated by some group as one of the top forty restaurants in the US.

French cut Rack of Pork

Besides the  pumpkin rolls, we had Turkish green beans or taze fasulya, with tomatoes and onions, squash and the center piece, a French cut rack of pork, done to perfection.  I cut it into huge chops and everyone loved it.  Ron and I both had a second chop, but the hit was the rolls, Ron having at least four, I had three.  For dessert, we had home made snicker doodles and watched an hour of the Republican debate, not the best way to digest a big meal.  They head home till mid February tomorrow.

Today is shopping day, as I mentioned, hopefully a good hike, then on to as new book, as I finished the latest Jack Reacher novel last night...what a guy.