Thursday, December 18, 2008

Snow!!!

Our much-needed moisture has arrived ... in buckets! On Tuesday and Wednesday, we got more than 10 inches of snow here at the house; this morning there was a cold, blowing rain coming down when I walked the dog at 5 a.m. Roads are gonna be murderous!

Fortunately, we only have to go in to Mancos today, to work our shift this morning at Artisans of Mancos. We can probably manage to cover the four miles each way without mishap. I've been in four-wheel-drive on the Jeep for the last two days. SWOS has gallery night tonight; we'll see how the weather is.

Yesterday we reached the turning point ... got just about all the gifts out and Sandy got her cards out. I've got two small items to mail today and some cards to write yet; will take them with to the co-op to work on and hope we're too busy!

The week of Olde Fashioned Christmas was a good one ... but it's nice to have it behind us. Now we can relax a bit and enjoy the holiday season. 

The nice thing about the snow is that it will end, and we will go out and enjoy the new snow in the bright Four Corners sunlight.

A headline on Google News caught my attention this morning, alleging a Canadian businessman had been approached to murder up to 60 people in Shawano, WI. Shawano's a quiet little farm town not far from where I grew up (at least, it used to be quiet), but apparently there's conflict around a naturalized citizen from India who settled there 30 years ago. One side says it's a closed community that doesn't like anything different (which sounds possible, from my experience); the other side says the head of SIST is a cult leader (which we've also seen before).

Browsing further in Wisconsin, I see from the Tomahawk Leader that two of the main companies in the area (just north of where my family lived) are doing temporary and permanent layoffs. Also that the county budget is so stretched that snow-plowing may have to be cut back. That's a serious impact in northern Wisconsin! tv

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