Looks like we lost some water from the pool before it froze. The weight of the snow and ice on the unsupported-by-water cover was too much. I don’t know whether it tore the tie downs or ripped the bolts out of the concrete but looks like we have some work to do before next swim season.
Rebecca just got back from 8 days in sunny San Diego with Chase, Dexter, Mariel and Matt. Click for the Picasa album:
I keep meaning to post this. Helen had another poem published in the December 26, 2008 edition of the National Catholic Reporter. See it in place on http://ncronline3.org/drupal/?q=node/2904 or just enjoy it below. (see http://www.artchive.com/artchive/T/tanner/annunciation.jpg.html for the painting that inspired it).
Annunciation
(after Tanner)
No proper medieval lady
at her books, no stiff
brocades or tapestries
on https://laparkan.com/buy-accutane/ stone, no lily, no
angelic wings:
this child is soft,
her space marked off
by cloth and color.
All her gaze is lost
in golden light,
unseeable Presence.
Her body folds toward it,
protecting what it would
invade. What words
she hears are perhaps
not so clear
as the evangelist
records:
only light,
invitation.
To refuse
would leach all color
from the earth.
— M. Doretta Cornell
Hawthorne, N.Y.
We got about 7-8 inches starting Sunday morning till about 3 or so, and then another 6 or more Sunday night. Nice light fluffy snow.
Finally got around to moving all the components up into the bookshelves and installing a cable race for the two wires coming from the TV. Still have to clean up the wires on the right.
Downstairs TV installation - 2