Mid Week Blues

Snow Babe

7:32

Another morning at the lake, a light, wet snow at the moment, little accumulation overnight, as winter continues here at the lake, with an early morning temperature of 26º.  The temperatures will be dropping during the day to single digits tonight.  That's the good news, the bad, it will be in 40's on Friday and Saturday.  I wish the weather gods would let continuous winter weather hang around for a while.

Yesterday for the first time, we both felt snowed in, not that we were, just that we had quite a bit of accumulation overnight, close to a foot I would estimate.  Our parking area was covered, plus the plow created huge piles along the road, making it difficult to clear our parking area.  So, I went out early to get a start but the snow was wet and heavy, so I took it extremely easy, biting off junks of this snow fall elephant a bit at at time.

Among The Giants

Wind and Squalls On Long Point

We determined earlier we did not want to venture into Lakewood but the snow was so good that we decided to drive to Long Point, on icy, snow roads by the way, to cross country ski and snow shoe at Long Point State Park.  We took our time driving over, sliding a bit where the plows had left piles of snow.  And we started in the park in deep snow, so deep that I could hardly slide on my skies.  Eventually, I let Evie go ahead and make a trail for part of the way until we got to areas with less snowfall, so I was able to glide, not plod along like I was on snow shoes.  It snowed much of the time, a biting, icy snow, hitting our faces and we loved it until we got down close to the lake, with no bushes or trees to protect us.  As we made our way out to Long Point's tip, we both feared for frost bite because of the wind,  In fact, the wind was so strong that it made literal waves of snow along the path, covering the tracks of skiers from the other day.  It was cool.  It was an exhausting, physically demanding morning exercise, and it took us two hours to finish our loop of 3 1/2 miles.  We felt elated when we finished, happy to have done it,  glad it was over, like most workouts.  We did not get home until 1:30, so Evie went inside to make lunch and I stayed outside, taking another bite out of our snow elephant.

Winter Cathedral

Heavy Winter Frosting

Lunch was soup and tuna melts, another TREME, some reading, then a great nap.  Evie took it easy as well though she was not as sore as me.  She did put together a biga, a starter for bread, which she will make either today or tomorrow after it has risen and developed a taste.  Around 4:00, we both went out for at least a half hour to finish the shoveling of our parking area and road.  If the snowplow had not created such a mess, we could have been done much earlier.  Anyways, we got it done by 5:00, in time to come in and have some wine time before Evie went into the kitchen to make dinner. We decided to make use of the leftover ham, so Evie fried it up, with eggs, asparagus and home fries, and we had what reminded us of an Easter brunch.  Yum.

We watched the first episode of the second season of BETTER CALL SAUL, which we liked though we are a bit confused of the chronology of this particular show.  We then channel surfed, watched a James Corden but ended up watching the always delightful Westminster Dog Show.  It's always fun to speculate which dog we would want if we wanted a dog!  All of them are fun to watch but we both like the Otterhound the best, flouncy, long haired, and curious.  We will watch the second day of the show later in the week.  I am back in Berlin, during WW II, in my 7th Bernie Gunther novel, by British writer Phillip Kerr.  What a contrast to be back in the dark world of Nazi Germany after Bruno The Police Chief's small town in France.  

Otterhound