White Out

7:00 

7:32

7:11 and the front yard trees are just now beginning to become visible, their arms reaching to the sky. All is white except their dark limbs. It's 18º out, and we can expect another 3-5 inches to snow to go with yesterday's 2-3 inches.  Slowly, we are climbing towards a 'real winter' of snow and cold.  No fishermen out yet but they will no doubt soon be out there, early morning, hoping for the best.  

Snow Covered Cairn

Yesterday was a strange day weatherwise, a white out when I was driving home from yoga and blue skies and puffy clouds in the mid afternoon, as striking as a summer sky.  My day was typical but Evie woke up not feeling well, stuffy and tired, so she spent most of the day taking it easy.  I drove to yoga at 9:30, a good class, as we worked on our backs mostly, something everyone has trouble with.  I did stop at Ryder's Cup for a coffee, hoping they would have their eggs but they were out.

Lunch was easy, the last of the ginger/carrot soup and leftover pizza from the previous night.  And I had lost my mojo by the end of lunch, so I just relaxed, along with Evie and did little of substance the rest of the afternoon.  When I looked out at the sunny, blue skies around 3:00, I knew I should be out cross country skiing in our Woodlawn/Victoria woods, but I just sat back down and went back to my book, a sloth for the rest of the day.  

4:14

4:48

Neither of us felt like fussing with dinner and we didn't.  I brought the pot roast in from the back porch around 3:00, to let it warm up and Evie put it in the oven for an hour.  She has saved mashed potatoes from a previous dinner, so she took them out of the freezer and warmed them up with the pot roast.  At the last minute, we realized we had Brussels sprouts, so she quickly cleaned them up and roasted them in the oven.  So dinner was literally a carbon copy of Saturday night, pot roast, mashed potatoes, salad along with Brussels sprouts.  We watched what we think is the final episode of The Affair; we are not crazy about Noah's new French lover, wondered how he ended up in Paris, but liked the way Noah and his daughter were reunited.  She really wowed us with her acting, realistic and not overdone.  We then struggled to find something to watch.  We started with a Turkish series called KACAK.  It was not the best of Turkish films, overacted and dramatic but the setting, in a small Turkish village was perfect and took us back to our seven years in the 1970's.  One episode was enough, so we switched to an Italian series called Merli, about an unorthodox philosophy teacher, bankrupt, homeless, and estranged from his son.  He is forced to live in his mother's home and gets a substitute job teaching at his son's high school.  I kind of liked it, Evie not so much.