We got a few inches of snow early this morning and school was called off . . . . again. Allie doesn't seem to mind. She had a good view of things on a snow mound while we walked in town.
I probably shouldn't have put this photo up, because icicles are not exactly a good thing. This one goes almost all the way to the ground (below the bottom of the photo). Just one more home repair to add to our list . . . . .
Today's snow day worked in Mary's favor. She got an early start on her weekend plans to visit her Shorewood friend Mayya at Amherst College, which is 100 miles north of us in Amherst, Massachusetts. Here they are on Amherst's beautiful snowy campus.
Have camera will travel! Mayya and Mary "in town" after we had a delicious lunch in Amherst.
The sidewalks all over campus are brown like this. The Amherst website has this to say about it: "When a distillery in Europe noticed that the stream its remnants were dumped into never froze, a new product stumbled onto the market. Students call it soy sauce, though it's now mostly an extract from sugarcane. It lowers the freezing point down to about zero [degrees Fahrenheit]. Salt only gets it down to 23 degrees." Not sure we'll be trying it at home anytime soon (it really smells like soy sauce), but I thought this was pretty cool just the same.
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