Author: doug

Yesterday, skiing at Jay Peak was not for the faint of heart… very cold, very windy.  Wind chills well below 0.  Today felt like a gift: still cold (high maybe 10 F), still windy (at least on the lifts above the trees & at the summit), but muuch better than yesterday.  Fine light snow sifted down all day freshening trails as it came.  We were especially happy since Sunday was predicted to be the colder of the two days; and this prediction kept a lot of people away.  Today’s entry is Chris’s commentary on this turn of events.

We had an awesome day skiing, despite the massive cold — below 10 F all day — and wind.  Here is an example of the conditions we had to put up with 🙂

This weekend I am skiing at Jay Peak with friends.  Today’s shot is of the awesome fireplace at our inn, Inglenook Lodge.  We spend quite a bit of time around this fireplace, because it’s right in the bar.

Something about today — the warmer temperatures, the sun making an appearance, or perhaps increasing desparation — really brought out the birds around our feeders.  We were not here to see it, but the evidence speaks for itself.

Snowy Quincy (and Boston) from the big conference room at work.

OK, so I missed the opportunity to take the same picture as seemingly everybody else who’s doing Project 365, namely the conference room full of coworkers watching the streaming video of President Obama’s inauguration.  I simply forgot to bring my camera with me.  Instead I took a shot of him from CNN’s web page when I got back to my desk:

OK.  This is getting ridiculous.  I fear for our ability to get into the house if we get another storm like this one.

Perhaps honoring our friend Jason’s visit from North Carolina this weekend, this morning a Carolina wren visited our suet feeder, then took shelter in this hollow of snow before departing.

This tiny bird lives somewhere near our house, scolding us or our cats through the window on a semi-regular basis.

The thing about a lava lamp is, it’s not really intended to be run continuously for 6 months.  This one’s wax (the colored part) is developing kind of a film on it, and last week its bulb burned out.  But we want to keep it on to lend atmosphere to our “game room” for house showings.  I replaced the bulb today, and I think it’s running a little bit better than it had been.

This is not the coldest temperature I’ve ever seen on this gauge… that record still stands in the negative teens Fahrenheit seen in Stowe, VT on a ski trip a couple years back.