Flurries And 19º

Among The Hemlocks

6:45

Another morning of gray skies and white lake and cold.  We received another dusting of snow overnight, not enough to need shoveling. A few ice fishermen are out, certainly no army.  Neither of us can figure out why the numbers have dropped so precipitously over the past few days.

It's hard to differentiate one day from the previous because of the sameness. Each morning, however, we have two big decisions that must be made before we finish our coffee.  What's for dinner and where and when are we going to snowshoe/ski?  Once that is decided our day can begin.  Usually, Evie either has something in the refrigerator for dinner or gets it out of the freezer to thaw. We then get a couple of things done around the house before getting on our layers to go outside,  

Loving The Snow

Yesterday because of the snow and cold weather, we thought it would be dramatic to ski in the woods of Long Point, hoping the pines were frosted with snow,  Well, they were but we had difficulty getting a good photograph showing their beauty.  We did stay out for a good hour, enjoying the groomed paths, meeting a couple of dog walkers on the trails.  It's strange how we start out cold, especially the hands but a half-hour into our snowshoeing, we are taking off hats, even gloves despite the temperature in the high teens. 

A Trail Well Groomed

We did not get home until after 12:00 and it was time for lunch.  Evie made me tuna melts and I had another bowl of her vegetable soup.  I watched another episode of Balthazar, finished my book, The Tenant, napped, and then spent the rest of the afternoon looking for something else to read.  I have started two books, neither of which have grabbed me yet. I am becoming too particular.  Meanwhile, Evie prepped our dinner, marinating chicken thighs in yogurt for lemon chicken and she used the leftover beef bourguignon as the base for another soup for when we finished her vegetable soup.

I was bored with reading so I went out to ski, thinking it would be good on the lake.  Wrong The surface was frozen so that my skis crunched through six inches of frozen snow, down to melted ice.  My skis would then freeze up and I could not glide.  I stayed out for 15 minutes but finally gave up in exasperation. When I returned, Evie had the lemon chicken baking, along with the rice, and the Brussel sprouts so we could sit down and enjoy our view before dinner.

As usual, the lemon chicken was great although a bit different from the usual as Evie used our daughter Beth's recipe.  We are running out of shows to watch so I picked out a movie I had been wanting to watch, based on one of my favorite novels, The Goldfinch.  It seemed to me to be an impossible book to film but the filmmaker did it justice.  I won't say it was a great film but it was worth watching.  We then watched the news, avoiding the hour-long deifying by Fox News of the deceased Limbaugh,  racist, misogynist, xenophobe liar, and fearmonger, deserving, no doubt, the Presidential Medal Of Honor for all the "good" he's done for his country!  We ended the night we the last episode of Midnight Diner.  We will miss it.