I'm sitting at my computer listening to the wind howling outside. I went into the garage a few minutes ago to secure both pedestrian doors that were not properly latched. The wind is gusting over 20 m.p.h. and the temperature is 25F and still heading down. At one point there was a wind gust that sent the wind chill down to -0.3F. Our lights blinked a few times, and we lost power earlier in the evening, but just long enough to upset the electric clocks so they have to be reset.
     We have had misty rain and occasional snow showers most of the day. This morning there was slushy snow on the small spots of bare ground and covering our deck, but that melted very soon. I expect we are making ice again, probably only briefly, but the pond has shown few signs of the ice letting go any time soon.
     I've had several messages from Eva Sollberger, who does the "Stuck in Vermont" segments on Fridays for WCAX. Eva was here this past weekend doing interviews about our Ice-Out Contest. The piece will be on the 6 o'clock news over WCAX this Friday evening. She did the interviews with Shelly Walker and some other folks, and contacted me for photos. It will be interesting to see what she does with all of it. So plan to watch WCAX 6 o'clock news on Friday.
     Unfortunately, her piece comes too late to give our contest a boost in sales, but still, I expect we did pretty well this year. Diane told me tonight she thinks everything is in now, so they will begin tallying proceeds and subtracting expenses in order to be ready for when the clock stops and there is a winner - or winners. It will be several days before all the tickets are logged in - that's no problem since the ice isn't melting much. We know on-line ticket sales were up quite a bit from last year, so hopefully that is a good indicator that people were more interested this year. When we have some figures, I'll let you know.