Preparing for Siege

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

Yesterday it wasn’t my idea to go outside and play in the snow, and yet I enjoyed it. So this afternoon, at lunch, I declared my intention of building an igloo. We had lots of snow, it was just below freezing (so the snow was easy to pack without being slushy), I had the whole [...]

Cold Dawning

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

We woke up to a cold house this morning. The furnace stopped working during the night, and it was a chilly 13