1. My sister and her husband are visiting from New Zealand. I haven’t seen them in almost exactly 2 years. I’m thrilled to be home and hanging out with the whole family.
2. It snowed like crazy last night. Big, huge, white fluffy and wet. Perfect for snowballs. W, S and I went for a midnight walk down to the lake. It was gorgeous out. A combination of virgin snow fall, trees heavy laden and droopy, but not so much snow to impede the walk.
3. Sometime between when I put a log on the fire at 1:30am and when my dad got up at 4am the power went out. My folks take water from a spring bed on the property, so no electricity means no power for the pump house, means no water. The phone was working first thing in the morning, but cut out at a certain point.
4. None of the washrooms have a window. So it’s toilet by head lamp 
We spent the morning/afternoon cooking over the camping stove and bbq, and taking another walk to the lake. S and I rolled a huge snow ball, (grown-up muscles + child’s imagination = bigger games).
It was about 3:30pm and we were still without power, so we took a trip into the city to Dad’s clinic where we could shower, recharge my cell phone and laptop, etc. I can’t believe how much it feels like Christmas. Or like a surprise Christmas. The snow, the time off work, family around ~ but without the typical holiday stress. What a nice surprise.
We will head back out to the country soon to meet up with my folks at the evening service where they volunteer. Even with electricity on, they only have dial-up out there, so my capacity to blog has limitations. But I have always performed better with a structure of imposed limitations.
On va voir.
Hopefully the power will be on soon. And hopefully the pipes from the pump house won’t have frozen. And hopefully it keeps snowing.
Merry Christmas, everybody. Take it when you can.
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Sounds like you’re living in a Robert Frost poem. I’m jealous.
I’m also reminded of that passage from Thoreau I told you about:
“I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to put to rout all that was not life and not when I had come to die discover that I had not lived.”
Keep it up!
Thank you.
Walden sits on my shelf, staring me down. But I will keep this close at hand, and close to heart. Day 2, still no power. (It’s become a little less exciting, and I’m moving to the office until it get sorted out.)
I know this is totally unrelated, but since you’re a video-game guy, I must ask…
Will you be picking up Animal Crossing? It would be totally awesome to visit you/have you visit me.
That is all.
-J
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