A Bright Sunny Day

7:40

7:44

It's 8:20 and we both have been up for an hour on a sun-filled, blue sky morning. Interestingly, for some reason, no ice fishermen are out yet. It's a chilly 17º but may get up to 30º later in the day.

Cross Country Skiing

Sunday was another football Sunday and thank goodness, we only have one more in two weeks. We had our usual relaxing Sunday morning because we had nothing to do. By 10:30, however, Evie had a couple of projects in mind and that took a half hour or so, nothing big. By 11:00, I had shoveled the parking area, then donned my ski boots and went cross-country skiing for thirty-five minutes. For the most part, the lake was great but when I skied to northern Woodlawn, the lake, for some reason, was slushy and I was lucky to turn around and get back to snow and ice. The rest of the day, the lake was busy and neighbors were out walking across to Long Point and back. 

Late Morning Sky

Northern Sky

Moi

Cross Country Skiing

At noon, I went on a fool's errand, looking for a Buffalo Bills hat to wear during the Bills/Chiefs playoff game, stopping at three stores until I found one. By the time I got home, I couldn't care less about the hat and never wore it. Fortunately, Evie had pancakes ready for a late brunch and I devoured two stacks with butter and Red's maple syrup. 

Threatening Sky

After brunch, I read some, then napped and read again until 4:00 when we both started watching the Eagles/Commander game. Our daughter Jill had six couples over for the game in Northern Virginia. Sadly, the Commander's lost. The big game, between Buffalo and Kansas City was on at 6:30, just as we were having dinner, the leftover pork carnitas on rice with cheese, sour cream, onions and avocados. It was a good game if you were my son Tom and daughter Jill's families, avid KC fans. We wanted the Bills to win but were not unhappy with the Chiefs winning either. We just feel bad for Buffalo fans. And that was it for Sunday

A Quotation From CONCLAVE Novelist Richard Harris: "I used to think of politics as essentially driven by rationality. Now I recognize that the processes of the human mind are much more emotional and complicated. It feels as though the era of the Enlightenment has ended; we are back in a time of superstition and conspiracy theories."