Current mood:	content
Current music:	MSO talk show on WFMR

Snow!
We are having our first real snow storm of the season today. It is great to be indoors looking out though. I used to cherish this kind of weather when I was still cross country skiing. That was a long time ago, used skis that you wax. There was a rich vocabulary to describe snowfall and temperatures in the color coding for the waxes. When I lived in Salt Lake City (around 1980) the radio weather forcasts included ski conditions and recommended wax to apply. We didn't get much snow in the valley, but often I would be greeted by flakes of wax falling from the upper balconies in our apartment building as people scraped their skis and got ready to commute to the slopes.

Some kind of communicable disease went through Milwaukee and Chicago over the holidays. A friend called it the flu, but I came down with it the day after Christmas even with having a flu shot. (Mitochondrial disease, chronic respiratory problems, and never getting over the 1999/2000 strain qualified me for the first round.)

I am getting close to the top of another brown hat, this one similar in design to the gray hat I made over the summer. The wheat pattern crochet doily in size 30 thread is still at the 15th round, set aside for Christmas knitting.