Sun, Blue Skies And Chilling On an 18º Morning

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 I was up around 6:30, heard the sound of a motor, opened the bedroom blinds in time to see the red lights of a four-wheeler tooling across the lake to fish.  Since then I have been listening to Only A Game on NPR and taking photographs of the sunrise.  When I walked outside to the lake's edge to take a photograph, I could hear the echo of the lake cracking and groaning. 

Tulips, Harbingers Of Spring

Neither of us could believe that yesterday was already a Friday, as the days, weeks, months, and seasons seem to fly by.  Where did January, New Year's, Christmas and Thanksgiving go? Did they happen?  I made it to yoga, as usual, a nice variety of yoga positions and took the long cut home, avoiding the potholes before and after the bridge.  After class, I decided to wash my car, at the self-wash place, just before Wegmans.  Since I was that far, I stopped in Wegman's and picked up a few things we probably didn't need but maybe wanted, like French Vanilla ice cream and six teriyaki shrimp sushi rolls for lunch. 

When I got home, Evie had made some cauliflower soup with the leftovers from a potato and cauliflower Indian dish we had the night before.  Nothing like sushi for lunch with soup.  The rest of the afternoon was a blur, as I never did make it outside for a walk nor did Evie.  We both felt like sloths but that was not enough to get us up off the couch.

Late Friday Afternoon Fishing

Around 5:00, however, Evie got busy, putting together what has become my favorite dinner, scallops in a lemon and butter sauce over linguini.  It involves searing the scallops, taking them out of the pan and making a dry vermouth/butter/lemon sauce with shallots, garlic, red pepper flakes and topped off with some cream.  Meanwhile, I did my part, washing up a few dishes and timing the linguini noodles.  Evie then combines the noodles, the sauce and finishes it with the scallops and we have a great dinner, with a salad.  And to top off the great dinner, we watched a movie from 2007 we really liked called HALF NELSON, perhaps Ryan Gosling's first starring role.  He's a charismatic and independent history teacher in an inner city school.  He's also addicted to drugs and forms a touching relationship with one of his female students.  He helps her with her single mother, drug dealing friend and she acts as a friend to his addicted self.  Both Gosling and the young girl, Shareeka Epps, are superb, believable and honest.  We ended the evening with another hour of chatter from the skating experts before we were able to watch a couple of the men in the figure skating finals.  Nathan Chen finally lived up to his hype, with a superhuman effort, moving him from 17th to a 5th place finish.  We also watched a thrilling cross-country race and one-speed skating race before hanging it up.