13º And A Couple More Inches Of Snow

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The temperature dropped overnight, from the 30's, to the low teens and we got some snow overnight.  It's a white on white morning on the lake, only a couple of fishing shanties out there this morning.  The finches are going wild at the feeder in our front window.  They hog it so that we hardly get any other birds. 

Sunday was mostly a day of waiting for the Super Bowl to begin.  We had hoped to get outside but because of the warm temperatures, the drizzle, the wet snow, we decided to stay inside and enjoy just being warm and cosy in our house.  I have to admit it's nice to not have to go to yoga, that the weekend seems like a weekend because there's no yoga.  So we had a long coffee, taking a few photographs, then deciding what to have for breakfast and dinner.  We realized we were out of bacon for our Sunday big breakfast, so I didn't mind driving to the Lighthouse Grocery and picked up a half pound of their breakfast sausage and a pound of their bacon.  When I got home, Evie had already started on our dinner, a beef stew, with biscuits.  Once that was started, the meat seared, the veggies, sauteed, she put it in a slow oven to cook, then fried up some sausage patties, eggs, and toasted a bagel and we had our breakfast.  We watched CBS Sunday Morning,  never disappoints, and settled in for a relaxing afternoon.

Neighbors "Boys" Building A Fort

Sisyphus In The Snow

I finished my Jack Taylor yesterday and started my sixth Longmire, leaving behind Galway, Ireland, picking up the landscape and inhabitants of rural Montana.  I didn't feel like napping but fell asleep anyways, woke to the aroma of a Sunday stew cooking.  We then watched some of the build up to the Super Bowl, the last hour of the film THE DESCENDANTS, set in Hawaii.  Around 4:30, I decided to get some exercise and hiked on the lake, down to Magnolia and back, thinking the snow was too wet to ski.  I was wrong as our neighbors, John and Maryanne came out to ski just as I returned home. When I got home, Evie was making biscuits for our stew before we relaxed with a glass of wine as the long Sunday waned.

Late Afternoon Cross Country Skiing

We had a great Sunday dinner of stew, salad and biscuits, watched the entire Super Bowl for once, a great game, filled with tension.  It was nice to see the underdog win but Brady proved he's the greatest quarterback ever,  even in a loss.  Nick Foles more than proved himself, kept his poise at the end by throwing the winning touchdown pass.  Amazing performance.  The halftime, however, was a dazzling display of bells and whistles, lots of lights, movement, and noise but Justin Timberlake was average at best, the music uninspired and unrecognizable at least to us. And I thought the Super Bowl commercials were silly although many seemed to like them.  Once the game was over, I was happy to get back to Longmire and miss the postgame.