Our cold winter weather continues. It's 12 above tonight--relatively warm compared to last night's -2 degrees.  It was much colder than that in some areas. I think even St. Johnsbury had some colder readings. The sun was beautiful this morning, but by mid-afternoon we were seeing clouds, and that probably accounts for the slight warming trend. (Pictures taken on West Shore Road as we came home this afternoon.)
     Needless to say, the pond is well frozen over now. You can see how solid it looks beyond Ray and Cyndi Rouleau's in this photo. I think this is about the same as it went last year. I looked back on last year's blog and Henretta Splain (Clubhouse Circle) alerted me on December 17, 2016 that fishermen were out on the ice in the cove between her house and Channel Drive. I wouldn't be surprised to get a message from her any day that they are out there again. Those guys are fearless.
     At right, good progress on the new garage at the former Furloni camp, now Talbot's.
     West Shore Road is well plowed and sanded, but it is kind of rough. It isn't due to potholes, but feels like running over the tracks left by a crawler tractor. Fred thinks it may be from the town trucks with chains on during one of the rain/icey periods a week or so ago. The ice was probably soft enough so the trucks, heavily loaded with sand and salt, cut into the hard-packed snow and ice that had built up and then when it got colder, it froze in ridges.
     It looks a lot like winter on West Shore Road, and feels that way, too. This is our house--the snowbanks are beginning to build up!