New Year’s Eve 2007, 1:30 pm: Lots of snow today and it keeps on coming down. I thought I should get off my duff and actually write a blog. I’ve become irretrievably lazy as opposed to irretrievably broken, which means I would have been discarded.

Our trip to Augusta and Togus went smoothly. We saw a moose on the drive down and on the return trip, a bald eagle sitting atop a large pine tree in the median on I-95 a few miles south of the off-ramp to Medway. He politely ignored us while I tried and failed to get a photograph. Digital cameras don’t always compensate for operator error. We made it home about 4:00 pm and fortunately for us it started to snow just a few minutes after we unloaded our car. It seems it has been snowing ever since. I did buy a pretty cool two CD box set celebrating 50 years of Stax records.

My timing is off today. I was out with our snowblower about noon clearing our driveway and walkways, and of course our town’s snow plow came down our road about an hour after I finished. Unsuccessfully I tried to outwait him so I don’t have to redo part of our driveway. I lost - go figure that out. We’re a one snow plow town.

In any event: Guten Rutsch ins Neue Jahr!

Current values from our wireless Davis Vantage-Pro weather station:

Temperature: 19.1° [F.], -7.2° [C.]

Barometer: 29.731 & falling rapidly

Humidity: 82%

Wind: Calm

Visibility: < ½ mile – snowing

Skies: 100% low overcast

Precipitation: ca. 4 inches of snow

Since midnight:

Low temperature: 10.8° [F.]

High wind: 3 mph at 10:38 am