January 25

Wild day! The hard drive crashed on the bookkeeping computer when Lea tried to get into it. Troy quit; he's the other ad-salesman. The Mac that I do classifieds and obits on had a tantrum, and the printer decided to print everything in tabloid format rather than normal 8.5 x 11" size. And then there was the blizzard. This was a fullfledged nor' easter! Snowed like crazy; it took me half an hour to drive home [normally takes less than 10 minutes]. I sure was glad to get into my warm house.

This evening the snow turned to sleet, which sounds neat as long as it's slashing at the outsides of the windows and I don't have to go out in it. Kate and I did our evening walk during the little gap between the snow and the sleet, just before 5:30. She was wild to gallop and had a wonderful time during the few minutes of non-precip.

I grabbed the mail out of the box by the road and got into the house fast when the sleet started, you can bet! Kate didn't stand on ceremony either. She scooted right in. In those sort of circumstances, I open the door and stand back, so I don't get knocked over.