Author: doug

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.

We’ve recently switched to new bug tracking software at work.  It’s evidently got some psychoanalysis features built in as well.

Between Lis being on Weight Watchers, and me working in an office without a cafeteria for the first time in my career, we are doing a lot more cooking for the freezer.  Tonight’s meal (delicious, if I do say so myself) is beef stew with potatoes, carrots, turnip, kidney beans, and kale, served over pasta; very satisfying for a day where (as Pete from Channel 7 says): “arctic air payed us a visit today: pure, numbing, dense, and ubiquitous.”  And the best part: we get to enjoy it for 6 more servings.