I just saw this link on Cabot Front Porch Forum and couldn't resist passing it on:  Mixup in Illinois  Thanks to Karen Meuller-Harder in Cabot for spotting that article. As Karen remarked, "This wouldn't happen in Vermont."

Also a reminder that this weekend is the Vermont Maple Open House on the 23rd and 24th.  Find a sugar house to visit - there will be lots of them open and welcoming visitors. 

We've had a beautiful day today with bright sunshine all day long - something of an oddity in the recent days.   We had about 3/4 of an inch of very dry, fluffy snow this morning, but even though the temperatures have been only in the low 30's, some of the snow has melted and/or settled. This is how our morning started off - bright sunshine and hardly a cloud in the sky.

We may have more snow flurries the rest of the week, but today has recharged our batteries so we won't mind the cloudy periods ahead quite so much.  I'm sure skiers everywhere are rejoicing at all the new snow this storm left for us.   We got well over a foot here at Joe's Pond and that brought the total on the ground back up to just about two feet when I measured this morning.