Because we had some house showings yesterday, the porch was open and warm. Parker and I took the opportunity to do some quality relaxing by the “fire.”
January 30
I stayed late at work tonight because my traffic report told me I could either sit at my desk, or sit in traffic.
Guess I’ll need gas again soon too.
January 29
Côtes du Rhône. Pretty tasty.
Some Frenchman would have a fit if he knew I had it with good old American chicken & dumplings last night, and Italian-ish pasta w/ red sauce & sausage tonight.
January 28
Guess what??
It’s snowing. Again. At this point I kinda wish it would stay up in ski country. Those chairs are normal height, not sunken into the ground or anything, and that snow is not especially deep in comparison to the surroundings. It’s pretty, but we are running out of places to put it.
January 27
I got one of the good parking spaces today. We have 6 assigned spaces on the first floor of the garage. If I’m early enough, I get one; if not, I get to drive up to the 3rd or 4th floors. Not a big deal, but helpful at the end of a day as action-packed as today was for me.
January 26
On the weekend’s ski trip I had some photographic equipment difficulty. It seems my 10-year-old Nikon Coolpix 950 creates an out-of-spec filesystem on something as large as a 512M memory card. It’s perfectly happy to use it, but the card can’t be read on Linux or Mac OSX. I have no idea where the (RS-232!) cable is for this camera, so I’m fortunate that my Windows PC at work was able to read the card (but not without some grousing). Anyway, the pics are recovered, and you can see an example in January 24’s (revised) entry.
January 25
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.
January 24
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 🙂
Yes, this is not the picture that was up here earlier for today. See January 26’s entry for details.
January 23
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.
January 22
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.