new year

it's a new year, more than 2/3 of the way through January, everything looks different. Last fall was hard as you know if you were reading this, but I'm so wonderfully plugged in here now things look very different indeed.

And out the window: the frozen lakes are not, as I thought at first, quite thawing, but instead there is a layer of water on TOP of the ice! and right now this morning for the first time in ten days there is a white fog that makes it look as though we are surrounded by snow four floors up in the air.

Love to you all my friends and family reading this. More in a minute.