Lots of Snow, Some Sun, Cold

The Oldies But Goodies

Loving Winter

8:00

Cross Country Skiing at Long Point

Up at 7:00, to a quiet house, what else, as I sip my coffee and listen to NPR.  It's now 8:00, as the sun tries to peak over a bank of clouds above Long Point.  A touch of snow last night, just enough to cover the windshield, and it's 24º out.

We started yesterday with a late morning snow shoeing and skiing at Long Point. Lots of snow, much like the day before.  I always seem to mention that we never meet anyone on the trails but yesterday was different.  As we drove down Lakeside drive, who should we see walking the road but the Mc Clures!  We said aloha, then went into the park, and actually saw a couple of people walking, another cross country skiing, and the trails looked like they had been used.  Still, it was lovely to be in the pine forests, though the wind around Long Point was so strong that we decided to forgo a trip out to the point.  It was like this the last time we skied as well.  We were out for close to an hour and a half, enough to work up quite a sweat.

Tree Weighted Down by Snow

Fishing Off Of Long Point

We or I should say Evie, spent a good part of the afternoon on dinner, as Stan Marshaus and our good friend, Dick Allen, were coming for dinner.  Evie put together the Silver Palate's Chicken Marbella, a great dish with capers, prunes, olives,  lots of garlic and white wine.  She also was inspired to make banana cream pie, with a home made crust.  Both worked out well.  Around 6:30, Stan and Dick arrived, as Stan had driven to Buffalo to pick Dick up.  We had a great time, talking about the good old days, teaching and living in Hawaii, since we have know each other since the 1960's.  Dinner was great, of course, and though no one said they wanted banana cream pie, too full, we all had a piece, no surprise.  Stan stayed till about 10:00 and Evie, Dick and I stayed up till about 11:15 talking, mostly about Dick's son, Jon Dom, a freshmen in high school.  Dick started his family a bit later then us, at fifty five, so his son is three years younger than our oldest grandson, Tyler, about to be a freshmen next year at Dartmouth.  Dick and I actually go way back, to junior high, to high school, college, teaching, the Hawaii.  We played basketball together in high school, and then again, in the Armed Services League in Hawaii for the Kenny Kaneshiro's Jolly Rodger Pirates, a fast food restaurant in Hawaii, with their signature sandwiches, the Porky Boy and Cheesy Gal along with the plate lunches and saimin, a noodle soup.

Chicken Marbella

We are thinking of heading to Red's Pancake House for breakfast this morning, a nice way to start the day, about a twenty minute ride to Sherman.