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Week One in the Frozen Tundra

The weather headlines on television tell me there are floods and tornados in Louisiana. The front causing this activity is covering the entire US from Northern Michigan to the Gulf Coast. In Wisconsin, we were predicted to get 8 - 10 inches of snow. Mandeville got some rain. Appleton got 3 inches of snow. What does 3 inches of snow look like?


Note the garden hose is crawling off the picnic table.

The pictures and paintings are crawling out of the boxes, scattering themselves about the house, some of them have scaled the walls and are hanging in place.

Pieces of furniture have found their final home after a tortuous journey through various rooms.  We settled one benchmark in house history. Lucy's food and water bowls have found a place in the kitchen. Take a look at the photo above and note her paw prints in the snow. Lucy is reacquainting her backside to the snowy surface. Not joyfully, I must say.

This snow will be gone before you read this blog. It is the month of greatest transition in Wisconsin. Up north, we enjoy a longer period of all of the seasons in that we are ninety miles further up into the Comfort Zone. I'm not sure where the meaning to The Comfort Zone" comes from. I always thought that it meant this is where people came during the summer for their vacations. It's that or possible it's as far away from the big cities you can get.

For You Sorts Fans
My interest in the Basketball tournament ended with the elimination of UVA, coached by Tony Bennett, a former player for The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. 

I'm settling into some kind of routine. However, it's difficult to do some things when there is a full box of belongings staring at you begging to be unloaded.

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