Good afternoon GH.  It is just past 1:30 in the PM and that's according to my newly set Citizen Eco-Drive watch.  It took awhile to set, and an exchange to get a watch without a scratch on the band, on which I practiced setting, but Mary and I did it.  Well, I did the setting, Mary helped with the purchase and subsequent exchange.  The watch is huge, and of course it looks just right on my wrist.  As Adam says, those guys with their little wrists look ridiculous wearing one of these watches, but it looks just right on me.  My apologies to Goldilocks for the paraphrase of her famous line.

Currently, the temperature on the desktop and according to my Weather Window weather station, is 38 degrees.  The National Weather Service window shows 37 degrees, but what's one degree, unless you are talking the temperature of ocean water?  I took a few pictures out the Weather Window, and at various other strategic places around our palatial estate, just to show the amount of melting that has occurred over the last few days.  I'll place them at the end of this blog. We are expecting lower temperatures for the next several days, but back to forty by Monday.

I have a session set for this afternoon at the local library with my student.  We were supposed to meet yesterday, but something came up.  We plan to work on proofreading of some material and that should use up most of our time.  I also have a form to fill out for the program records, but that shouldn't take too long.  Otherwise, it is a chance to catch up on some of the time we have lost to weather and other issues.

So, since I have little else to say, I'll bid you all adieu.

Here are the aforementioned pictures.

Some of the now snow free menagerie from behind us.

While much snow remains, it is slowly receding.

The westward looking view out the window of Mary's office.

If you look past Mickey's ears, you can once again see my friends in their "Cave Man" outfits, sans snow.

Most of the snow is now gone from this area of the shared driveway.

My neighbor keeps his house nice and warm, as evidenced by the lack of rooftop snow cover.

You can actually see the end of the driveway.  In the background, you can see that the houses across the way have no snow cover.

I too keep our house warm, but we still have some snow cover on the roof.