Saturday, 8:45 AM. 19 degrees, wind NW, light but increasing. The channel is rippled, without any lake smoke. Yesterday afternoon ice was forming in broad patches. The sky is mostly cloudy, but the barometer predicts sunshine.
Thursday evening was the free "Forever Ed's" lutefisk dinner at Maggies. We were there at 5:00 and got a seat and in the food line right away. The menu was the same as always: lutefisk, Swedish meatballs, vegetables, boiled potatoes, herring, salads and lefse. Desert was bread pudding. Ed Erickson was a local fisherman, businessman, mayor and character who passed away a few years ago and is thus remembered. I have learned to tolerate lutefisk, a considerable feat for a non Norsky. It may help that I drive a Saab. The meal was topped off with aqavit, the Norse firewater most helpful in thawing out bodies frozen in blocks of glacier ice. The event was ceremoniously closed with the singing of O Lutefisk, to the tune of O Tannenbaum. I will spare you the verses. Note: the more aqavit, the better the rendition.
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