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This was just before Mitzi decided we needed to get outside and do something. I love it when the snow sparkles. It was cold, but no wind so very comfortable. I was out there in a shirt. I wouldn't hang out that way, but for a few minutes, it's comfortable.
We didn't watch the Super Bowl. We don't have a streaming service that carried it, and we don't get OTA TV. So we rented Fackham Hall, which was hysterical. A Downton Abbey parody very much in the mode of Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker. (That is to say, Airplane! Police Squad and so on.) If you rent the movie online, the opening production credits have no soundtrack, and the opening scene begins black with very low volume music. There's nothing wrong with the stream.
I was convinced it was borked somehow. I had audio from the AppleTV UI, and audio in the preview, but the first couple of minutes of the movie are silent.
Which drove me crazy.
I watched the NFL recap of the game, and I think I didn't miss much.
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It was a beautiful day today, and Mitzi suggested we get outside and do something. I wanted to hike Taughannock again, since there was a chance it'd remain sunny today.
There were some clouds when we got to the falls overlook, and it started snowing. But it didn't last very long. The ticket machine was working at the lower park entrance, but Mitzi had her park pass so that was nice. It was about 15°F, snow was very crunchy.
The sunlight didn't help as much as I'd hoped, but it was prettier. Again, there were only four other people we encountered on the trail. I don't know how many winters will be this cold, but I'm glad we took advantage of this one.
After we finished the hike, Mitzi wanted to visit a local restaurant for lunch, but it was closed on Mondays. So I persuaded her to go to Montour where I could get another shot of Chequaga Falls, which I have been erroneously calling Montour Falls. It's completely frozen over, I'm assuming there is water flowing beneath the ice, but all you can see is ice.
A slice of pizza and a cannoli Jeraldo's and then home again to climb out of all of our layers.
Then a big nap in the recliner.
Time well spent.
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