Ours is happy—we have no floor, well, plywood, so don’t think of us dancing on the floor joists—but we have ample food, we’re baking cookies, and will exchange a couple of prezzies—we’ve both asked for new muffies (house slippers)—but most of all, we have a floor in one room and prep work done for other areas. And I am cleared to work on it until the 6th January, at which point I’m back in restriction, but with a new lens in the other eye.

It’s snowing up a storm–there’s now 10″ of accumulation out there, and more coming tomorrow, after which it will clear and be very, very cold.

Beautiful trees out there. I had to go out and whack snow off the bendable evergreens and the sapling dogwood to prevent the sheer weight of wet snow from deforming them—Jane’s laboring hard to get our kitchen into shape for epic baking.