April in February: Drizzle and Gray, More to Come

A Great Day in the Woods

Hiking the Trails

A depressing morning, as I am up at 7:00, to sleet but mostly rain.  No fishermen out today, most likely because of the rain.  This seems to be the forecast for the next few days, as it warms up to the 50's on Friday, alas.  On a day like this, I miss the gym, as it does not look very inviting out side for a walk or hike.  Yoga is not until tomorrow, so we will have to find something to do for exercise, perhaps walking the CI.

Yesterday was a glorious day, sunny and cool, so we went off to walk a part of the Overland Trail we had not been on before, heading north from the Mt. Pleasant Rd parking area, just a mile or two outside of Sherman.  We walked about three miles total, through snow covered trails, lots of sun, blue skies, how invigorating to be outside on a day like this.  We walked past the Lean To we had walked to early in November, on our six mile hike with the Chautauqua Hiking Group.  So, we are slowly covering a good part of the trail, our goal, to walk it all by June.  Weather permitting, it should not be a problem.  Our next segment will be from the Mayville parking area to Hannum Road and the Chautauqua Gorge.  We got home around 1:00, Evie put the Adama Bread into the oven, and we finished up the cauliflower soup, with cheese sandwiches.  I like mine with jam spread on the bread as well.

Elizabeth David's English Loaf

Bernard Clayton's Sour Dough Adama Bread (with corn meal)

Around 5:00, we drove off to Lakewood, to pick up photographs at Walmart, then headed over to the Jamestown Community College gym to watch the local team, Maple Grove, play it's second tournament game.  It was a good game, they won, and the  gym was packed though the crowds are nothing like college crowds, not much into the games, or so it seems.  A small group of students do cheer, but that's about it.  And cheerleaders seem an anomaly; no one pays much attention to them.  After the game, we went to Guppy's, for their wings special, split 15 wings between us, with a beer, and headed home to watch Mad Men (two more episodes to go), and a bit of the election returns.  I finished Geraldine Brooks Caleb's Crossing just before turning off the lights.  I liked it.

From Vickie:  I love this.