Happy New Year!

It snowed all night on Saturday night. Turning the dustings and icings of the precipitations earlier in the week into a real winter landscape.

The boys have been outside playing in it several times during the day and into the evening. After all, it’s dark just after 4pm. I introduced them to unique fun of nighttime sledding. Somehow, it always feels faster in the dark. Another reason I love living here, that the boys can go outside any time.
And then come into this, of course.

It’s cold this week, so the snow is staying.

Chris and I are reading Oak: The Frame of Civilization by William Bryant Logan. It is sort of ethnography/history of oak trees, and it is awesome. Utterly fascinating. Logan is also the author of Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth, upon which one of my favorite films Dirt! The Movie is based.

We waited until the New Year to take down the Christmas tree. Ellis cried bitter tears. It was such a special Christmas for him. I think I’ll make him his very own Christmas photo book.

And so we begin a New Year, with promises to read more, write more, exercise more, uh, eat less. Slow and steady.