long island for a year

We are confined at home these days, with Carlotta having a cold and the snow. It is supposed to snow all day again so, let's consider shoveling a bit as a winter sport - if I practice enough I might make it to Vancouver!!!

So, today I was - in spite of the snow - driving to this place to get an ointment and a new tape for Bastian's lip, since the old one was coming off last night and I was told by some surgeon's secretary "not to touch, remove or apply anything, just come here and we'll do it". Driving half an hour isn't as terrible as it used to be some times ago and the snow had left almost no trace on the streets BUT going to the surgeon, filling some forms in the hope that someone is fixing the problem and then getting two small packages of ointment ("do you have this at home?" you think if I had this at home I would have come all the way to a facial treatment spa with two kids to make an ass of myself?Excuse me, but no.) was as ironical as it sounds. When I finally get to go to an hair salon, it will be enough beauty. Then, I took the kids for a stroll in Port Jeff and went to the burrito bar , because we wouldn't have time to cook and there were no left-over...

On Saturday it was snowing on Long Island, too. This is probably a snow landscape I hadn't seen before, even if there were snowy winters in Venice when I was a kid - and this year too, to tell the truth. Have a look at this ...isn't it amazing? Very beautiful pics of the snow on Long Island were posted by Bill Drago on The Long Island Blog . What am I doing while the snow is still on the ground? Bake cookies: I took the chance to try a recipe I got from my friend Marge. Usually I am very experimental with sweet stuff, which means everything turns out a bit different from expected...and actually I did add a secret ingredient. Still, these cookies will be renamed "Marge's cookies", because I like the idea that there is a person behind every recipe.