A Winter Playground

Cross Country Skiing At Dusk (enhanced sky)

9:23

It's just beginning to get light at 7:00 and I have been up for forty-five minutes, enjoying the dark and quiet.  A solitary light on the lake welcomed me, an early bird ice fisherman. It's 21º, warming up from the teens of the past few mornings. It's 9:30 now as I finish this.  I have been to Wegman's and back and now it's snowing, getting the lake ready for us to cross country ski.

Walking A Dog

A Village

Saturday was a let's enjoy the frozen lake kind of day.  By noon, there must have been at least a hundred guys out fishing if not more, many huddled in Bemus Bay, the others off of Long Point.  Neighbors were out walking their dogs, cross country skiing, or hiking on the frozen lake.  It was that kind of day.  We had our typical morning, watching the ice fishermen walk out and stake out their sweet spot as we had our coffee.  We then got busy, gathered the trash and I was off to the Transfer Station by 10:30.  When I returned, Evie was ready to cross country ski, so I got ready and we grabbed our skis and went out and skied the lake, down to Sandy Bottom and back.  Evie loved being on the lake, with some sun, and no wind to make her trip uncomfortable.  We are so lucky to have this lake to enjoy in front of our house.  

Man In Red

Wow...An Open Lake

We had no big plans for Saturday, so when we returned, I warmed up the chicken satay and ate while watching a movie I started on Friday, No Country For Old Men, violent but an amazing film.  We both wasted the rest of the afternoon, doing absolutely nothing productive.  It felt good.  I read some, as usual, fell asleep, and then watched some TV.  Basically, we were waiting for dusk when we would get back out on the lake.  So at 5:30, we put on our skis and went out to enjoy the lake once more as it began to darken.  I wore a headlamp just in case but it was fine skiing at dusk.  We were out for forty-five minutes and glad we waited.  

Skiing Home Dusk

Dusk

Dinner was no fuss as we were having imitation crab cakes, Brussel sprouts, salad, and home fries for dinner.  I bought the crab cakes at Aldi's, thinking they might be decent.  Well, they reminded me of fish sticks but I ate them anyway.  At least the salad, potatoes, and Brussels sprouts were good. We watched a great Real Time With Bill Maher.  He had as guests two environmental biologists, both experts on the Coronavirus and the vaccines.  They raised all sorts of interesting and troubling questions concerning the viruses and their variants, the kind of answers we don't get from the Media or Government.  We ended the night with comfort and laughs, watching Midnight Dinner and Better Things.