Another Half Foot Of Snow Overnight

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It's a snowy morning, all is quiet and white outside, the way it should be in February.  It's cold again, 21º and although no snow is predicted over the next few days, we will enjoy what we have, a lovely wintry morning here at the lake.

Despite the weather report that suggested we were to get less than an inch of snow, it rarely stopped yesterday, so we ended up with at least six inches in the past 24 hours if not more.  I know I shoveled the driveway twice and yet this morning, I will be out there again, with at least four or five more inches overnight.

Woodlawn In The Morning

We started our day early as it was Evie's turn for a doctor's appointment in the ongoing quest to figure out why her ear remains blocked.  Of course, this has lead her to seeing a specialist.  We were home by 9:30 fortunately and had thought we might either walk or go out for breakfast but just getting home sounded best.  It was too late for me to get to a yoga class, so we both spent the morning doing what we do best, very little.  I did realize that we had eaten up all of Evie's vegetable soup so I decided to make my easy, go to black bean soup.  Just saute some onions and garlic, add tomatoes and beans and lots of cumin and black pepper, and it's ready for the coup de grace, some sun dried tomatoes in olive oil.  It's ready within a half hour and great with a dollop of sour cream or yogurt on top.

I had to return a book to the Smith Library, so I drove there around noon, dropped off my book and because I was near the Lighthouse Grocery store, I picked up a sub for lunch since we were out of ideas for lunch.  When we got home, I heated up the soup, ate half of the sub, Evie a quarter and we watched the depressing news of the day.  When isn't it depressing, full of lies, innuendos, and name calling?  And CNN seems to have breaking news every half hour, with Wolf Blitzer popping up out of nowhere to announce it.

I had enough after a short time, went back to the living room, to the couch and read then took a great nap.  Nothing like a nap where you wake up rested and oblivious to the fact that you had just had a nap.  Evie seemed happy to just relax, take a day off from going to the gym but I wanted to get outside, to ski some in what seemed to be a blizzard outside.

Woodlawn In Late Afternoon

So I put on my skis and fought my way through the snow and wind as far as Magnolia, skiing through the campground to its end and back.  It was fun for the first five or ten mintues, but the wind blowing snow in my face got to me after awhile so I turned around and went home, happy enough with a half hour jaunt.  I then shoveled our parking area again, thinking that would be enough for the next couple of days.  Wrong as I will have to shovel again this morning to get our car out of its parking area.

Early in the afternoon, Evie had gotten out some salmon fillets, so around 5:30, she made up a picata sauce with white beans, capers, garlic and lemon juice for the salmon, then relaxed with me in the living room with a glass of wine. And we watched it continue to snow, wondering where it had come from since we were supposed to get an inch.  After our wine, Evie pan seared the salmon, sauteed the spinach, and made a salad, so we had salmon picata, salad, and spinach for dinner.  Cool beans, too.  We watched a couple older episodes of THIS IS US and we are really getting in to it.  It's a clever show, about a family of triplets, their lives growing up, and their lives in the present, as adults.  We then could not resist the temptation to return to the news, like junkies, and learned once again what we had heard on and off during the day, that Flynn had resigned or been fired, that he was, according to Trump, 'a wonderful man.  I think he has been treated very, very unfairly by the media as I call it, the fake media in many cases.'  Well, if the news about him was fake and he's so 'wonderful,' then why fire him?  A conundrum Donald but you don't know what 'conundrum' means.  Bed comes as a welcome respite from reality.