We Tried!

7:27

Morning Rain 

It's a miserable morning on the lake, 40º and a drizzle dots the windows s the snow continues to melt. Still, a few hearty ice fishermen are out but not many. I have been listening to CSPAN listeners discuss the 1.9 Trillion stimulus bill, some for it, many against it.  It's certainly a cross-section of opinions.

Fishing This Morning Off Of Long Point

Fishing Friday Afternoon At Long Point

Yesterday 'we tried' to get in what we thought might be our last morning of cross country skiing.  So after breakfast,  Evie put together a pie crust and I made a pot of white bean stew or kuru fasulye in Turkish.  We then thought about cross-country skiing on the lake but decided it would be too icy.  So we decided to drive to Webb's Trail close by and a straight shot out and back.  Also, the trails were closed to snowmobiles because of the thaw so we thought it would be good.  Well, we could hardly step out of our car because we were parked on a vast parking lot of ice.  The trails, as well, were icy so we packed it up and went home, not willing to risk a fall.  I was determined to ski so I put on my skies and went out on the lake but it would have been fine if I had on ice skates, not skis, so I came in discouraged with our morning.  

A Whiteness Too Icy To Ski

By the time I came in it was lunchtime, the leftover tas kebab on mashed potatoes, and I watched the last episode of the Balthazar series on Prime so I am now open to suggestions as to what to ready to watch during lunch. The afternoon was sunny, with blue skies yet we stayed inside because of the ice not only on the lake but our road and parking area.  At 3:00, however, we drove off to Wegman's for another big shopping day.  While Evie shopped, I went to Aldi's to pick up and few things, then joined her as she checked out with a cart full. We didn't get home until 4:30 and spent another 15 minutes putting things away or trying to find space to put them.  We need another pantry. 

We relaxed with our coolers until 5:30 when Evie got busy with our dinner shrimp and grits, a new favorite, first enjoyed at Rita's in Folly Beach, South Carolina. She used the recipe from the NYTimes although she made creamy grits for the shrimp with tomatoes, spices, and the addition of asparagus, to make it special. We loved it of course as we watched Colbert.  On a previous Colbert, he interviewed pop star Billie Eilish and we were impressed with her poise, confidence, and humility.  So when Apple TV announced they were putting on a documentary on her called The World's A Little Blurry, we decided to watch it. We loved it, the story of her early years with her family, the first song, Ocean Eyes, on Instagram at fourteen, the meteoric rise to fame, with the collaboration of her brother and supportive parents.  Much of the film is set in the modest family home, where she and her brother Finneas write and produce most of her songs, in her brother's bedroom.  There are no mansions, limousines, just family and of course a dog,  We see her perform on early tours in Europe, Australia, as well as the US.  And it ends up with her winning five grammies for her first album, an unbelievable accomplishment for someone still in her teens. We admired her relationship with her fans, treating them as friends, wanting to always please them, give them her best.  She is an amazing entertainer and young woman, grounded and caring, supported by a great family.  I was most impressed by the lyrics of her songs, sensitive, thoughtful, more like poetry than most repetitive pop songs. We also loved her clothing choices, iconoclastic and bizarre, never boring, never sexy, just her, 

On Apple TV+