Well, we just finished digging ourselves out of at least 12 inches of new snow, here in the Upper Kennebec Valley. The tenants in the building all cooperated in digging their cars out and making use of the escape driveway so the snowplower could come back and polish off the job. I've finished shoveling out the walks and reparking cars for those who are not working today. The home cats, Tilahun and Tejitu, checked out the front porch, lashed their bushy tails, and were last seen curled up on the window seat in the office. The neighbor's big tiger cat, Gashay, finally put in an appearance for brunch; we had't seen him yesterday and were beginning to worry – he's such an incredible eating machine. I'm not sure where we're gonna put the snow from the next storm expecting friday and saturday. There's just no room. Maybe we can ship it off to Alohaland; our town used to do stuff like that back in the early 1900's. We'd ship blocks of Kennebec river ice (insulated with sawdust) all over the world, even to China and India. Wonder if they used shanties to help with loading the ice blocks?