Last night's rain washed away both the snow and the treacherous ice field beneath it. I miss it already, and am glad I got one day of skiing in. I'm sure I looked pretty silly at first as I struggled around a track buried in 5-6 inches of powder in some places (which is incredibly hard to skate-ski in, and resulted in a few falls), but I managed to ( Read more... )

It has never occurred to me before that that particular song was appropriate for all of winter, rather than Christmas, so I feel no embarrassment in singing "sleigh bells ring" for the whole world to hear. We've had a lovely six to eight inches of snow here in Bellingham, although I was home for the long weekend and we had six inches by early ( Read more... )