This is one of those gloomy, black, white and gray days here. During the early morning hours there was a bit of wet snow that turned to rain by daybreak. The temperature is hovering around freezing, and there is a thin coating of ice forming on the trees. I took these pictures at about 9 a.m. Fred had just left to help our 89 year old neighbor and good friend, Louise, get her new computer set up and running. She has never had one before, but took a basic computer skills course a few years ago and is excited about the prospects of having so much information at her finger tips. The hard part about getting her set up was finding a server. She's only a couple miles from us, but her options are definitely limited compared to us. I think today Fred will finish the last steps getting her service hooked up and begin showing her how everything works.

We have had feedback about the slide shows, and so far nobody has liked the last method of presenting photos as well as what we used before, so we'll go back to the other program, flickr.com. Thanks to all of you who checked in on that.

I have the scanner on and there is a report of an accident near the interstate exchange on the Danville side of St. Johnsbury. One injury. I expect the roads may be slippery in spots, especially the paved ones. The Cabot town truck has been by here earlier this morning and spread salt and sand and the road looks ok, but there isn't much traffic on it. Several loads of logs went out towards Rt. 2 yesterday, but nothing like that today. Fred took his shovel and a pail of wood ashes, just in case, when he went out this morning.

Winter weather doesn't let up on us this year at Joe's Pond!