Let it Snow

It is snowing this morning as I write. Snowing like crazy. Silencing the valley, keeping the cats in, making it feel like Christmas all over the Great White North. And I have a garage this year and do not have to go out and shovel off cars. Yippee.
Our furnace decided to give it up yesterday. It's not an emergency since we have two kerosene heaters and a wood stove in the house and three heaters in the studio. But we have ducts throughout the house for the forced hot air and when we get those howling winds with a 25 below wind chill factor it's real nice to keep the pipes from freezing. So we are having to buy a new one. Not really what I wanted for Christmas!

We have been working on re-doing our studio web site. Olof did the design and it is very good, I think. I'll copy the nav bar design for Caturday if I can get it to work in Blogger. There's no reason it shouldn't. It will make it possible for me to start adding cat information to the blogging and link to static pages without cluttering up the blog. I want to start adding book reviews and health information.

We got invited to spend next New Year's in Rome where some friends have rented the Sistine Chapel for a private tour. That's just too intriguing to pass up. As our religious leader, Bokonon has said " Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God." So we will plan on going. We're really not city people and we'd have a hard time in Rome on our own, or we just wouldn't have a good time. But with a guide and some city friends, it will be fun. And it would be wonderful to see the ancient parts of Rome.
But for now, it's skiing I am looking forward to.