Winter is here

No good photo yet so I posting one from last winter. Olof always makes these faces along the driveway. I hope he'll get a chance this year too.
We got about four inches of snow and now it is raining. The temperature is predicted to go up to the fifties for the next couple of days but still wet. Not skiable yet but soon come.
I spent the weekend laid low with a bellyache and then heard from a friend that he had had it too. So did Olof. So I had no energy and lay around reading until my eyes were too tired to read.
I like winter. The valley gets quiet and I can't hear the cars on Route 16 across the river. There's less bustle except for Christmas and we don't make a big deal out of Christmas anyway, going for a peaceful celebration with Olof's folks and sometimes a visit to the Cape where everyone on my side gathers.
I am going to try to rewrite Maggie by Moonlight and get started on the Cape project, but I think video projects will start up soon too. I am running off 20 dvd's for Camp Sunshine today but am still feeling a bit out of sorts.
If you live in a cold winter place like New Hampshire I figure there are two ways to get through it. Our way is to keep in shape and get out there and enjoy it. The other way is to hibernate through it, keep a really warm house and stay in. That's not an option for us except for the luxury of working for ourselves and having a very short daily commute down the driveway. But winter does have this lovely feeling of peace up here.