Happy New Year from Bill and Dave's
Rough skating in 2012?
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Happy New Year! Elysia and I were out till all hours dancing with twenty or thirty kids who are all suddenly huge and take up a lot more room on the dance floor than in years past. There were parents involved, too (Elysia says, Uh, Dad, there were parents going nuts on the dance floor!), and great costumes. We slept this morning till all hours, too! Juliet is in NYC to look after her dad and see the Dark Star New Year's Eve show. 2012 sounds like the future to me, who wrote 1998 on a check a few weeks ago. After a breakfast of chocolate-chip pancakes, Elysia and I ventured out wrapped for cold weather, but found it mild. The stream was frozen last week, but a warm rain Wednesday washed straight off the frozen earth of mountain and valley—zero absorption–and broke the stream ice out, lovely plates and planes of ice to explore. It all refroze, last few days, but today a little overflow will leave clean pools to freeze, and we're hoping for some ice skating before the next snow. Then again, we're hoping for some serious snow. We should be skiing to the stream by now, and skiing on the stream, and just skiing in general! Some photos below, with a camera I dropped in a puddle, a little creaky and foggy, apologies, dead flash. Note the spot, fifth photo below, where the first Bad Advice Live was filmed last summer! Hard to imagine a gentle swim right now, but it will soon be that time again. And then this time, then that, then this, then that, unto always….
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That's a pumpkin, not Elysia's hat.
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Good skating by Tuesday?
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This is where Dave and I filmed the first live Bad Advice last summer!
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Lettuce in January? Unheard of, coldframe or no! And this is a stealth global climate change call-to-action post!
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