We have had a typical Maine pre-winter weather week; the 7am Monday morning temperature reading from the side deck was 1F. The high temperature on Wednesday was 54F from the weather station. We have had all forms of precipitation possible.

We are at 17F for this report. The early morning sun comes up from the southeast in the first photo; our weather station appears at the extreme left. We had a serious ice storm between noon on Thursday and Friday morning; the next images (a close-up of our external lighted Christmas tree and the driveway after Wally attempted to plow with a mid-day temp. of 32F) shows our icing situation. It has been mostly benign, no power outages here.

Our lighted outside tree was cut down last weekend from our back forty and has fallen down twice at its original location near the front steps; after moving it to the fake stone/real concrete wall for additional support, it has fallen over once. High wind, gravity, and the miracle of fulcrum-assisted leverage defeated the faithful. Inshallah.

We will be examining the new beaver site again today; we went out in the middle of the storm on Thursday evening and was unable to see much progress on the part of the beaver nor additional evidence of tree harvesting.