Flurries!

When we woke up this morning the thermometer registered 34 F (1 C). While this isn't the coldest we've had yet (28 F/-2C last week), we had our first snow flurries on the way to the bus stop this morning. Thank goodness nothing is sticking since we have yet to purchase a snow shovel or ice scraper! Being that we are slowly becoming rednecks, I figure we can always use that cardboard we have piled in the basement to build some makeshift tools if need be. It has come in handy already for wedging the back door shut so that we don't get any more drafts. That's a Lehigh Engineer for you!

The lake is extremely rough; the waves are almost big enough to surf on. With the wind blowing out of the Northeast, there is plenty of open water for the waves to pick up wind before crashing on the west side of the lake. Not sure I'd want to be out there kayaking right now! It is quite a change from Monday morning when I saw a loon swim by. You wouldn't catch me sticking even a big toe in that water right now. That said, the neighbors supposedly went swimming just about ten days ago, sans wet suits. Crazy people!

Not much wildlife to report on. The only moose we've seen lately are the dead ones being towed on snowmobile trailers as moose hunting season started a little over a week ago. We did see a wolf this weekend, in my friend's backyard outside of Boston. It seemed to be stalking the neighbors' goats. Great to be back in civilization for the weekend ... just had to drive five hours to get there. Coming back Sunday night at around 10, I drove a stretch of road for 40 miles and saw only one other car. Desolate!

Speaking of nothing ... that is what we are getting from our satellite dish right now. No, I didn't actually break down and get a dish for the television but I did have one installed for the computer so we wouldn't have to use dial-up all winter. The first week it worked wonderfully, of course. Since the clouds moved in on Monday, it has been running at about the same speed as the dial-up. But, this morning when we started getting snow, the service went dead. Luckily, we have a 30 day trial period. Unfortunately, in order to cancel it, we have to dismantle the equipment ourselves and return it, somewhere down in civilization. And, you guessed it ... we don't have an extension ladder to get up on the roof. Cardboard???