Our January thaw has robbed us of at least 3 inches of snow and left many driveways like skating rinks. It rained quite hard for a while last night. Today I had the scanner on and while I didn't hear of any traffic accidents, there was a call about a woman who had fallen on the ice and another when a man in Northfield was hit by a car - I don't know if it was ice related, but it could have been.

I didn't even attempt to climb Jamie and Marie's hill today - their driveway was one of the icy ones, like ours. Fred spread wood ashes on ours first thing this morning and that made it ok. Jamie had contacted Marty Larrabee to sand his.

Our granddaughter, Tangeni, has two teeth!! I talked with Monika today and she said she thinks there may be a third tooth showing up, too. It's amazing how quickly babies change and develop. Monika said Tangeni is well on her way to creeping, too. She's coming up on seven months. We haven't seen her in a while, so I'm sure when we do we'll notice a big change.

Big sister Jo-Ann is busy with basketball and school activities. She had a tournament this past weekend, but we couldn't make it. We'll get to some of her games before the season is over, though. We really enjoy watching her team play. They're getting better all the time and by the time they are in high school, they'll have some good experience.

There is quite a village of ice shanties in the cove off the fishing access. That's Homer's camp, the yellow one, and the shanties are clustered mostly in front of there - right where our Ice-Out flag needs to go around April 1. They apparently like to fish in deep water because the depth there is close to 100 ft. This picture was taken yesterday afternoon.