Looks Like Another Week of Winter

7:20

Sunday Morning 

Sunday Morning In Front of Long Point

St Patrick's Day Lager

Up at 7:15, the outside beginning to lighten, three fishermen already out in the middle of the lake.  It's only 24º outside but the wind, from the south, is very strong, making the wind chill around 15º.  The eastern horizon was pink along the skyline when I got up but now all is light gray, no sun rise visible because of the cloud cover.

Yesterday was a full day, as St. Patty's Day should be.  Because it was sunny early on as well as most of the day, we  got out our cross country skis and skied the lake for the first time in a couple of weeks. Before venturing out, Evie put together the dough for her Onion Rye Bread and left it to rise.  We worried the lake might be wet and we did have some trouble with our skis and ice but we still were able to  get in about an hour, gliding down to Sandy Bottom and back.  It was great being the only one's out on the lake on a sunny morning.  Coming back was more of a chore, as the wind, unnoticed skiing out was strong and cold coming back.  We had our breakfast around noon, the usual, eggs, bacon, and toast and watched Sunday Morning on TV.

Onion Rye Bread Rising

Part of the afternoon, Evie spent getting our St. Patrick's Day dinner ready.  First, she baked two loaves of Onion Rye, then got the corned beef and cabbage ready to bake for a few hours.  I did some reading and watched basketball, helping in the kitchen when I could,  usually cleaning up, as Evie bakes and cooks.  Around 5:00, the Mc Clures came over and the four of us walked the Woodlawn/Victoria loop, on a sunny and crisp Sunday afternoon.  It was a good way to work up an appetite for corned beef and cabbage, and we were out for just about an hour, finishing by walking back on the lake, as the sky was beginning to darken.

Late Afternoon Walk in Woodlawn/Victoria Woods

Mc Clures

Our dinner was one of the best I have had, the corned beef tender and flavorful, the cabbage, potatoes, and carrots done just right.  Evie bought two corned beefs and we easily went through one, started on the second.  I wonder why we don't have this particular boiled dinner more often.  Perhaps because the idea of a boiled dinner does not seem appetizing.  It brought back memories of my parents; my mom would always have corned beef and cabbage on St. Patricks Day and, at first, when I was young, I did not much like it but as I got older, it became one of my favorites.  We sat around the fire until about 9:30 when the Mc Clures went home.  It was another good St Patrick's Day Sunday.  We looked at pictures from last year, the lake open, an unseasonably warm day, so different from yesterday.