Our storm is nearly out of here. The wind is still blowing, so it's difficult to tell if the snow that's in the air is falling or traveling with the wind, but things seem to be calming down a bit. We've had pretty high winds all day, and now the temperature is dropping. It was 15 degrees early this morning, but now is four above. Fred has been out a couple of times to keep the snow drifts from clogging the three driveways. Above is how it looked from our living room early this morning, and below is Fred with the snow blower. You can see there is a lot of snow in the air and he was getting pelted with the snow blowing back at him from the snow blower. You try to go with the wind, but in some spots you just can't and that's one of the times I think he wishes he was in a warm cab, like Bill Rossi has, or in the old International Scout we used to use to plow. I liked plowing with that - but the banks got so high we didn't have any place to put more snow, and with the blower, that isn't a problem. But it isn't as warm and there's no "music to plow by." Besides, the Scout was inclined to break down a lot - it was old and had had it's day. The John Deere rarely breaks down, and it's pretty economical to run, but it does help to be strong and healthy.

We've had reports that some places have been closed in the Lancaster, NH area - they apparently got a lot more snow than we have. I measured 3.4 inches at 9 a.m., and we've had more since, but mostly it's the drifting that's bothersome. The road crews are still busy, but winding down and will take a break in order to get ready for night duty, if needed. The forecast is for the snow to quit this afternoon but the wind will not subside until around midnight, with gusts of 40 m.p.h. or more, and temperature falling below zero.

Here is something to warm everyone up. I just had a note from the Marshfield Library with their schedule for the beginning of the year. Here is a link:
www.marshfield.lib.vt.us

If you'd rather not go out, here's something lots of readers will appreciate. You've probably been hearing about books on line, and now they are readily available for lots of applications. Here's some information: EBooks at Google.com

I noticed in the Caledonian Record that the bookstore in St. Johnsbury, Boxcar and Caboose, is having a couple of authors doing a book signing and apparently they were self-published by the new handy-dandy machine at the bookstore. The printing division is called Railroad Street Press.