Falling from the sky

It started snowing today somewhere around noon and laid down 2-3 inches of fluffy stuff by evening, so the skiing may be a little better over at Colby tomorrow, especially if (as the forecast claims) we get a little more overnight. We went up to the arboretum in Augusta to ski yesterday, which was scenic, if a trifle icy. (And got started too late in the afternoon, so we were only out for an hour.) Lobster for dinner (gotta do the Maine thing right) plus the usual round of card games, Settlers of Cataan, and Carcassone. I also fiddled around on my parents' computer to re-save the files for great-great-grandpa LaForge's diary in something less hostile to my computer. Three of the files are still a bit wonky (or got wonkified in the process of e-mailing them from their computer to mine), but I'll work on that some more. This will greatly speed up the process of getting the diaries on the web, since it eliminates the process of cleaning up all the garbage created by trying to read Windows-WordPerfect files on my Mac. Due to various automotive logistics the brothers and I ended up walking back from our parents house to the Maine Brother's house -- with the new snow lying all around and a few little flakes drifting down through the streetlights. Yeah, yeah, if I lived here I'd get tired of it pretty quick. But this Californian needs her snow fix.