Today is Kathleen's last full day at Leech Lake. Tomorrow at just after noon she is scheduled to fly from Bemidji to Minneapolis and then onto San Francisco. I will join her in California soon enough; I'm scheduled to leave on that same noon flight out of Bemidji on Thursday, Oct. 29.
It's almost 3:00 p.m. and it's still raining out. There's been a light, but steady rain all day long. he sky is gray, the wind is light to calm out of the NNW and the temperature is 39 degrees.
Kathleen, for some reason, has decided she wants to do some cleaning around the house this afternoon, so we've stayed inside cleaning and listening to the Vikings lose to the Steelers 27-17 on the radio (since we have no TV here at the lake).
At 4:00 p.m. Kathleen and I took a walk in the woods. A light rain continued to fall, but it didn't bother us as we walked on many of the trails that wind their way through the 60-acre woods shared by us, the Newmans and Norm Hansen.
Once we emerged from the woods, we walked to Paulsen's house where I turned back to go home, while Kathleen continued on for the full 6-mile run/walk.
When I came into the house, I prepped our salmon for dinner. The recipe is incredibly easy, but very tasty. Simply mix together one tablespoon of stone ground mustard, one tablespoon of brown sugar and one teaspoon of dill weed and then spread over the salmon fillets. Let the mixture sit on the salmon for at least an hour or two (4-5 hours is optimal), bake for 20 minutes at 400 degrees and voila!, a salmon dinner as good as any you'd pay for in a high-quality restaurant. Serve with risotto and salad to complete the meal.
After dinner we had a fire in the fireplace and then we watched a DVD. It was a short visit for Kathleen, but I hope she enjoyed her time here at Leech Lake.
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