The good news: The summer media center is in place.
Hermes is updated to Natty Narwhal too.
The bad news: The pool is empty. Waiting for McCarthy to put a new liner in. Estimated date is early June.
Here is the liner pattern we chose.
Today was a perfect burn day. It rained pretty heavily on Wednesday. It was cool (around 40) and cloudy.
Here was the start of the larger of the two piles.
Art was burning too and while he and Greg Michaud were talking, this hawk swooped down, grabbed something and then it looked like it dropped it and flew to Andrew’s swing set. 
I am being very careful walking around the house since yesterday. The other day I set a mouse trap up under the sink, behind the trash barrel. Late yesterday I checked it and it was gone. I started thinking I must have moved it or something until this morning when I found it:
So that mouse dragged it out of the cabinet and over to the jelly cabinet before escaping.
Here is what Camp Cornell looks like after another foot or so of snow:Link to pics
Here is a video I took with my phone on the way home from Hudson to Camp Cornell.
It is amazing how the blind corners affect my driving, making it a much tenser ride.
So Betsy sent me this picture from her sitting next the ocean in Naples.
It is fuzzy, and has washed out colors and pretty http://www.mindanews.com/buy-zovirax/ small resolution.
I sent her one from Stow.
It’s bigger, clearer and so much better because ….
Oh, never mind.
Another 11-12 inches.
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We got about 6-8 inches of very fluffy stuff yesterday. Luckily the combination of snow removal and the additional sunlight without the blocking trees took away most of the coating of ice we got on Wednesday when it rained for most of the day after the snow we got on Tuesday.
Here is a short (and shaky) video I took as my snow plow valet pulled into the yard yesterday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNOYJLNxnFw
And here stills I took Saturday morning.
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Update 12:45PM: 14 inches on back porch.
It is still coming down pretty heavily at 10:20 AM.
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At first glance this morning it seemed as if the water that leaked out from the pool had surfaced in the dry well at the bottom of the old driveway. But no, it was just a leak in the line from the well to the house.
Keep checking for new pics as the dig progresses.
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Well (hah) they found the leak and installed a new section of hose. Backfilling will complete tomorrow. We have full water pressure again.
Betsy did her usual magic with the Christmas decorations. Here they are, along with some pictures of the December 26-27 snow storm. We ended up with about 8-10″. Of course the McDonalds were away in Disney World so I cleared their driveway. I fooled Art though – I used his gas 🙂
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