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| 7:50 |
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| Sunshine Mid Afternoon |
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| Almost Full At 6:27 p.m. |
It's 8:00 and both of us have been up since 7:00, to 30º temperatures and overcast skies. The fishing guys are out, the snows have begun to melt, and the green lawn is beginning to peak through what's left over from last week's snow, alas.
Yesterday was unseasonably warm, making us wonder if spring will be far behind. It got into the 60's mid afternoon, intensifying the melt. Mud and dirt and grime appear, the virgin whiteness of winter fades. Not that it mattered as we kept to our routines, me with yoga at 9:00, a good class of twelve and Evie went to the gym around 1:00 but struggled with her workout because she left her water in the car, the gym was hot and crowded because of basketball tournament, and her new shoes bothered her. So she was not the usual happy camper when she returned home.
Before Evie left for the YMCA, however, she put together another huge pot of her famous veggie soup, a proven panacea for whatever ails you. So I am set for lunch for the rest of the week. And she tossed together an amazing salad for my lunch, perhaps my favorite, a salad with leftover salmon, hard boiled eggs, and lots of greens. Wowser, not a bad mid day repast! The rest of the afternoon was typical although I wanted to get outside for some exercise but it was too wet to cross country ski. So I decided around 3:30 to see if I could go for a walk on the ice but I found that the top three or four inches of the lake was slush. So I slushed my way along the shoreline of Woodlawn, sinking to the top of my boots at the outlet. That was enough for me, so I got out and walked home via the road. It was bizarre being out in 60º weather, with a frozen lake, and five or six piles of melt snow scattered among the Woodlawn driveways.
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| Ice Fishing On A Sunny Afternoon |
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| Spring Ready |
We drove over to the McClure's at 6:15, picked them up and drove off to Westfield for dinner at the Parkview Cafe. It has been closed since New Year's so it was great to see it open again during the winter. When we arrived, there were three other couples and unfortunately, that was about it for the night. The cafe is old fashioned, with black and white photos on the wall from the 1900's, which seems appropriate to this older building. It reminded us of one of our favorite restaurants in Turkey, Rejans, run by two White Russian women, famous for their Chicken Kiev. We all had good meals, though mine, for Seafood Lover's, which combined a lobster tail, with crab stuffed shrimp, mixed vegetables, roasted potatoes and a salad, looked to be the best. We closed down the place around 9:00 when the waitress took down the OPEN flag. She is not our favorite; in fact, when I got the wrong beer, already poured, she brought me the right one and took the poured one away! Nice. It's the kind of place we want to like more than we do.
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| At The Parkview Cafe With Ron And Linda |
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| Seafood Lover's Special |
We got home to find the resounding triumph of The Donald, who easily won South Carolina as I predicted and, fortunately, Marco Rubio edged Cruz out for second. Eight More Months...AND IT'S OVER.
It's almost 9:00 and we are going off to Sherman, to Red's Pancake House for breakfast, with the McClure's in a couple of hours, so we had better get moving, off the couch!
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