Hi to Everyone from cold, windy Vermont. We are really getting our winter weather now - just as all of us old-timers knew we must. It's in the single numbers above zero today and the wind is howling. Lots of blowing snow in the air and we can hear the gusts bumping the house and tearing at anything loose. We're very well battened down, but I can't help wanting to be close to the fire. Instead, I'm here at the computer catching up a little.

Some of you may know that Diane Rossi, Sherry LaPrade and I are auditors for the Town of Cabot. Sherry has recently resigned, and we have asked Liz Harvey to help us out in Sherry's place. Liz and her husband, Doug, live just off Cabot Plains Rd on the way to the village. Right now we auditors have been pretty busy getting reports in, gathering and updating information, balancing accounts and running off reams of adding machine tape. We have a deadline to meet so the printed reports will be out before March Meeting, as directed by the State of Vermont. So we've been at least moderately busy lately, and looking at a more hectic schedule beginning next week.

Consequently, I haven't paid much attention to the blog. However, I know some folks have been wondering how we're doing with that load of logs we had delivered, so I took some pictures. Fred has a good start, but on a day like today he has other things to keep him busy. He's already been out clearing the driveway, but will no doubt need to go again to take care of the drifts.

So here are a couple of pictures. That's Fred hard at work sawing up the logs yesterday when the weather was a bit milder. Today it's too cold and too much snow in the air, as you can see. We have plenty of dry, split wood for this year, so there's no big hurry to get that pile of logs cut up - except Fred says he doesn't want to be working at it all winter. Looks like a full winter's work to me!