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Loopy with family fun in the snow right in our own neighborhood! We are so excited! Click on picture for what we've been doing in the last few days. Our family thought for sure we were out of power because they hadn't heard anything from me all day. Well, here's why...and we do still have power thankfully, unlike 100,000 other WA customers. The wind and ice on top of heavy snow really make for heavy limbs. Of course this is all par for the course in a big winter storm event. I can't remember a Northeast winter without something similar. It's just so unusual for this area that the equipment is not readily available to handle it all. And some say the texture of the snow/ice/rain is different, making driving that much more difficult. Who knows - I beg to differ, having driven for years all over the Adirondack territory when I was working for Merck. Anyway - it's a good test of skills and rather fun. Thanks for checking in on us!

Sam made a monkey's fist stopper knot and spliced it to a longer twine to show how it is used to weight a line for heaving. I love the monkey's fist! Makes a good knob to stick through a bight on a necklace or bracelet.

Dave also tied up a bunch of loose ends by printing selected photos for these cubes on top of our organizer. This is what you see when you first walk in the door. We have THOUSANDS of special pictures so this was no easy project to sift through and select the best from each place we've lived. He also reorganized the organizer! Nice work - thank you!

We did a lot with just a dusting!!! We drove all over, had breakfast at a diner, bought a sled and saucers, then headed for some hills, after that we went for a hike. Then home for tomato soup, cheese and crackers after playing with our chickens and building a snow man. A great day off!

This was a perfect morning, aside from being sick..."farm breakfast", chicken time with Sam, then football "practice" with Sam during which we discovered the first slush flakes coming down! We studied them on our collars and sure enough - mushy slush! We raced in to tell the others. The snow has been building over the last hour to better flakes, but the temp is still a bit too high for any accumulation. Oh well - very exciting for us!

I gave myself a new haircut, and I LOVE it! Lots of layers. It dries quicker after my early morning swims. Highly classified technique...