Sunshine, Blue Skies, And A Dusting Of Snow

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It's a beautiful winter morning, no sign of Spring other than birds chirping.  It snowed some last night and temperatures dropped to19º from the highs a few days ago of 49º.  Winter remains for now.  The lake is now a vast whiteness, the snow covering yesterday's thaw.  It makes me want to put on my skis but I know that beneath the white is water, making it hard to ski.  

Typical Long Point Trail

Thursday was just another day, like the others.  We decided early on to snowshoe at Long Point because we thought the trails would be slushy, a result of the warm weather and it would be difficult to ski.  So after breakfast and getting a few things done, we drove over to the end of Lakeside Drive and snowshoed for a good hour.  Instead of following the usual trails, we trekked through the fat tire bike trails which were fun because it was like walking in an entirely new environment although it was still part of the park. We met just two women, walking their dogs so we basically had the woods to ourselves.  The fat tire bike trails crisscross the park and are used all seasons.  They even have a Facebook page alerting members to the conditions, when to bike, when to stay off the trails. 

Fat Tire Trail

We still had some mushroom barley soup leftover so that was my lunch along with a half of a Greek burrito from Wednesday.  And I watched another episode of Balthazar then returned to my depressing book, Four Winds.  The family has just fled the Dust Bowl to California only to find conditions just as bad if not worse there. I was happy to fall asleep to more pleasant dreams.  The rest of the afternoon was filled with leisure although I did chip away at the ice on our brick walk and Evie dusted and oiled our wood banister so we both could say we did not waste the afternoon.

For dinner, Evie sauteed mushrooms, added previously frozen meatballs and a jar of marinara sauce and we had a surprisingly tasty dinner.  We watched Colbert, then started an older series on HBO called Enlightenment, starring Laura Dern.  It's decent so we ended up watching four half-hour episodes before bed.