News from our alternate universe.

The last couple of weeks have been busy with visits from our friends from New Jersey, a concert at U MAss ( their student orchestra is very, very good),  a visit from the real estate agent who helped us buy our house, lots work on the china cabinet, and many walks, with and without snowshoes.

Here's a photo from a brief walk this afternoon after a snow shower decorated the local conifers, in this case a nearby grove of hemlocks.

 The title of this post comes from the name one of our friends has given our current place of habitation. Not sure if it refers to just our property, or our neighborhood, town, or region.

The cabinet is coming along slowly, partly because my working locations are cold, and partly because I do everything the hard way, including hand chopping half blind dovetails to join the pieces of the cabinet body together. The bottom half of the cabinet will end up comprising over 60 separate pieces of wood. I am already two months behind my initial schedule, but I hope it will be worth it.

I ma waiting to read an article which claims to resolve the particle wave duality in favor of waves alone, something that I was beginning to accept on my own. The journal should arrive in the next week or two.

Snowstorm

We got about 22" from the storm that ended last Saturday, but the high winds created everything from bare spots to 3 foot and more high drifts. As a result I got to do a bit of shoveling and a lot of  snowshoeing. Here are some pictures from around our house.

Our cars were only half buried:

The snow drifted well up onto to our porch and it was a struggle to get the door open.  We've given up using the other front door for any time soon.

The snow was not very dense but the wind was the real killer. An hour after clearing a path to the cars to shovel them out, it was covered again. I got the cars dug out and moved to the driveway which our neighbor plows for us. He then returns and plows the spaces in front of the house. It took ten hours before he got back to us from his rounds.

The wind was fierce all day and made our front yard look a bit like a miniature Antarctica.

The good news, at least for me, is that despite a bad cold courtesy of a visiting family member form LA, I've gotten to snowshoe three times in the past five days and there is nothing like a snow covered conifer forest with a clear blue sky above it. Now if only I can remember to take some pictures next time I'm out in the woods.