2024 Life Logs, Day 49: Too Much Wind
Date: Sunday, February 18, 2024
Weather: Mostly Cloudy, E 25-35 mph; High Temp 36, Low 24 degrees F
Location: At Home on Lakeview Avenue, Falmouth MA
Watching the weather is something you do religiously when you are sailing and occasional gale force wind warnings were taken very seriously. However, this past week here on land it feels like we are getting gale force winds every other day. Today was just too windy—no fun at all being outside. I knew the winds would get stronger late morning, so Shadow and I did our longer work first thing. Then around noon we headed out for our shorter walk, and I truly felt like I was going to be blown away. We only managed to do three quarters of a mile in total today, but I’m happy with that. I do hope Heather and gang didn’t have the same strong winds in Vermont. If walking was no fun, I can’t imagine trying to snowboard on the side of a mountain in that wind.
The wind today, combined with the cold, was enough to make me just want to stick my head under my pillow and not come out until the winds calmed down. I resisted, but I smiled when I thought about what I read in the NYT’s The Morning on Saturday. It said, “To ‘rot’ is to spend the day under the covers but. . . Recently, the more Seussian-sounding notion of the “hurkle-durkle,” a 19th-century Scottish term for lingering in bed when one should be up and about, has risen in popularity.” The author of the article went on to say that the “lie-down” is a more respectable way of branding an escape to spend some time off your feet resting. It is a form of rest that “manages to borrow the restorative benefits of the nap, and of bed-totting, without the suggestion of sloth.” So, the next time there is cold, cloudy day with gale-force winds, I’ll just have a “lie-down.” (Although, a “hurkle-durkle” actually sounds like more fun!)
What I did today was curl up with my book (actually my book on my tablet) and read interspersed with tackling more of the paperwork organization that has piled up. Today’s task was organizing a few years’ worth of recipes that I have copied off the internet. Many of my favorite recipes were in that messy pile of papers that are now in plastic sleeves and organized by appetizers to soups and salads. I benefited from the organization right away. I wanted to make something with mushrooms and wild rice, so I Googled those ingredients and came up with a Wild Rice and Mushroom Casserole. I was getting ready to print it when it donned on me that it was one of the recipes I had just filed away. I went to my organized piles and found in under ‘entrées’ right away.
