Monday Begins The Week

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Wow, just as I was about to start my blog, the sun popped up over Bootey Bay, so I carefully walked down the steps and out to the lake's edge for some photographs.  The lake looks like a vast skating rink, all ice with no snow.  There are fishing huts out and I wonder how they got out as the ice has to be slick and hard to walk on.  It's 26º, may get into the 30's later but snow is expected tonight around dinner time.

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Yesterday was much like most Sundays, as we enjoyed the idea that it's a day of rest or rather I did.  Evie wanted to get some things done for tonight's dinner, so she basically finished making two trays of baked ziti.  All she will need to do then is make the white sauce and bake it.  And she made our dessert, a Turkish semolina cake with pistachios.  We have had it before and it's is glorious.  Of course, I was the pot and bottle washer for much of the morning.  Around 11:00, however, I drove off to Lakewood for a coffee and picked up some deicer from the hardware store because our drive is still icy.  And when I got back, I was welcomed by the smell of bacon frying.  We then had our big breakfast with eggs, bacon, and toasted focaccia, a good way to begin our afternoon.

Fishing On A Bucket On A Sunny Afternoon

The rest of the afternoon we relaxed for the most part.  I read some, having started the most recent Harry Bosch novel from Michael Connelly.  And Evie had fun making up song lists on Apple Music, exploring all kinds of genres and new tunes.  She sure loves her Apple Music...thanks Tommy.  Around 4:00, I needed to get some exercise so I went for a half hour walk through the Woodlawn/Victoria woods, crunching snow as I walked.  The sun was beginning to set which made it even more striking, as the sun lit up the verticals of the tree trunks.  It was good to get out there again and enjoy the woods.

Woodlawn

Woodlawn/Victoria Woods

Evie had little to do for dinner, making a salad and heating up the chilli and leftover pasta, plating it and we had a meal, finished off by the last of the banana cream pie.  We watched a good hour of E's Red Carpet, always fun, with Ryan Seachrist until 8:30.  Then, we cruised through much of the Grammy's, fast forwarding through the commercials.  We were impressed by the opening, the hip-hop artist Kendrick Lamar, especially the dancers, Bruno Mars, and U2 but that's about it.  Everyone else was average or a bore, or so we thought -- not our favorite Grammy Night.