Wild Winds, Snow Flurries, Getting Colder

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Woke at 7:20 to howling winds, much of the night as well, a light covering of snow on the lawn and a completely open lake, not for long I suspect.  It's not very inviting outside, fog and snow flurries obscure the view, trees wave wildly, and it's cold, 26º compared to yesterday's high in the 60's.  Ah the fickle weather gods, especially Aeolus, Odysseus's nemesis, the God of Wind.  He's blowing the snow off off roofs, tree branches as I speak.

Yesterday was pretty much a carbon copy of the day before.  Yoga at 10:00 for me, a good class while Evie went off to the YMCA for her workout.  I picked her up afterward, and we went to shop for the first time since returning to the lake.  First, Sam's Club, to get some gas, pick up a few staples, and their 7.99 large pizza, which we have come to enjoy much more than pizzas from various pizza shops around the lake, plus it's half the price.  On to Wegman's, to spend a hundred dollars on practically nothing, having bought no meat as well.  It's hard to believe the inflation rate was just 1% this past year.  Food certainly seems to have jumped.

A turkey wrap for lunch, with vegetable soup, as we watched Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, then a relaxing afternoon, some TV, reading, and Turkish tea to make it compete.  I rode my stationary bike for around 35 minutes, long enough to work up a sweat before dinner.  We watched Charlie Rose before dinner, while sipping a glass of wine.  He interviewed the short story writer George Saunders and actor Bradley Cooper, the start of Silver Linings Playbook.  This show can be so good.  For dinner, we had the pizza, along with a salad, satisfying and easy.  Not much to watch on TV so we tried a show someone recommended on Netflix called Scandal.  A bit cheesy and predictable, about a woman who fixes problems in Washington, D.C., but her life is complicated by the fact that the President of the US is in love with her, imagine that, creating 'big problems.'  Clintons' final four years has certainly created fodder for the entertainment industry.

I am hoping Evie and I can get our exercise in this morning but the weather looks so wild and unpleasant at the moment as well as lake effect snow predicted that we might just have to stay home and hunker down.