Another Sunday Fun Day

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It's 8:00 as I begin this blog under a partly cloudy sky, a  20º morning. Evie's up and we are just sitting in our living room, the lake a vast whiteness,  a few ice fishing tents off towards Long Point. It looks like a decent day, with some sun and temperatures reaching into the 30s. 

Snowshoeing Long Point State Park

Groomed Trails

Sunday was a spectacular winter day, everything, homes, cars, trees, bushes and garages frosted with snow. We woke to a lake dotted with ice fishermen, to snowmobiles later in the day.  We enjoyed a leisurely coffee and tried to figure out our day.  We ended up deciding to drive to Long Point State Park late morning and see what the trails were like.  Once we arrived, we were excited to see they were groomed by a few snowmobile tracks, making it easy to cross country ski and snowshoe.  We were out for close to an hour, loving the beauty of the snow-covered trees and trails.

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We didn't get home until 12:45 and were excited to have our usual big breakfast, this time avocado toasts with eggs and hot sauce, a nice change from a Turkish omelet.  We watched our show, CBS Sunday Morning then did little the rest of the afternoon, just reading or watching some TV.  Around 3:30, our neighbors texted us to let us know they were having a cornhole tournament on the lake in their front yard. So we bundled up, put on our hip boots, and waded through the foot and a half of snow to join them on the lake.  Evie and I were not good neighbors because we won both games we played although no one cared because it was just fun being out on the lake, the sun shining, skies blue, drinking beer, and talking about lake life, how good it is. We walked home by 5;00 with both toes and fingers frozen but it was worth it.

The Cornhole Gang

We had not even started out dinner coq au vin, so we both got busy, chopping up the veggies, washing the mushrooms, sauteing the chicken thighs combining the ingredients with a couple of cups of wine, and a hint of brandy, then braising for an hour. By 7;00 we were enjoying it over a bed of rice and watching a Hometown, then an enjoyable film called Miss Sloane with Jessica Chastain on Netflix  It's set in Washington among the cutthroat lobbyists and Congressmen, out to win at any cost. 

Sitting On The Bucket On The Bay