Tom thought the picture above of the pond in winter was better than the barn scene, so there it is. The picture was taken during one of last winter's storms.
This is the pond down the road where, in warmer months, we see sandhill cranes, ducks, does with their fawns and (once) a blue heron. It is by the site where Tom's great-great-grandfather built the original farmhouse. The family has been on this land since the 1840s, although they moved the house away from the pond eventually to get away from the mosquitoes. The land with the pond and where the old farmhouse stood now belongs to the Fosters. What they do about mosquitoes in the summer, I haven't a clue.
Word on the news is that we will probably get another inch or so of snow before the end of the month, and that we are close to breaking the snowfall record for December. When I asked the cashier at Wal-Mart today how she was doing, she said she was sick and tired of the snow.
What can I tell you? We've got at least two more months of winter ...
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