Foggy Sunday Morning

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The temperature has dropped to 34º, thus the heavy fog on the lake.  No striking sunrise this morning as Long Point is hidden and all is gray.  Once the fog clears out, it should be a nice day, lots of sun and cool, high around 60º.

Yesterday was a less than busy Saturday for some reason.  Once again, we hardly got out of the house,  certainly didn't hike or go to yoga.  Maybe today.  We took our time during our morning coffee, in no hurry to get the kitchen cleaned up, the refrigerator emptied, the trash ready for my trip to the Transfer Station.  We did make one momentous decision; we are going to make cabbage rolls, something we have been wanting to do for months but never got around to doing it. So after my trip to the Transfer Station, I came home and Evie had a short list for me, coffee, hit the bank for some money to pay the dock guys who may be putting in our dock soon, perhaps today, and then picked up the makings for the cabbage rolls, ground beef, pork, cabbage and sauerkraut.  I was home by 12:30 and by early afternoon, neither of us felt like making cabbage rolls so we put it off till today or tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

Lunch was what I had been hankering for, pancakes.  I thought about having them for breakfast but forgot about it so I had my usual breakfast of yogurt and an oats mixture.  Fortunately, Evie reminded me of the pancakes in the freezer so I popped them out, put them in the toaster and had a delicious lunch, with maple syrup, of course.  We didn't do much exciting the rest of the day.  I watched a few minutes of a couple of different NBA games, read some, napped and woke up with a recipe in mind that I had read about in the New York Times called Red Lentil Dal.  It's an Indian spiced dal, with lentils, tomatoes and sweet potatoes and by the time its done, it's like a vegetable stew but more of a thick soup consistency.  It's not a very enticing looking dish but I like it especially over rice.

Photo Not Gourmet Magazine Ready

After a brief wine time, Evie made up some salmon cakes with the leftover salmon from last night's dinner and with rice and the gruel of lentils and sweet potatoes, we had dinner.  The salmon cakes quite good, the Dal decent not great.  We then watched the much ballyhooed film, MANCHESTER BY THE SEA.  It's a difficult movie to say we like because of the tragedy at the center of the film.  Let's say it's unimaginable how anyone could continue with life after something like this has happened.  But the character Casey Affleck carries on, takes on the care of his nephew for a few months to get him on an even keel after the death of his father but eventually realizes that he cannot take on Patrick, his memories too painful and will not stop.  We really liked the young nephew, Patrick, who also deserved an Oscar.   It had such an effect on me that I dreamed about it and woke up thinking about it, how one careless moment can change or destroy your life.  Scary.  We ended the night with Real Time With Bill Maher so we had a few laughs before going to bed.

Today's Big Sunday, a bean bag tournament at The Rod and Gun Club, and perhaps our dock may be put in the cold waters of Chautauqua Lake.