wintering

I was at it again yesterday: shoveling four inches of snow out of my too-big driveway, path, front steps. The only advantages I can see to frequent renewal of snow depth are that the exercise is good for me, and the fresh snow covers all the gray road crap. Of course, this means that come the next thaw, we'll have an eyesore, but that's the nature of snow.

We have terrible cards at duplicate, Tuesday: I think I bid something like four times all afternoon. Most of what I could do was just furnish cards: no weird distributions, no high cards in particular. The only interesting factor was that all the other East-West pairs were just as frustrated as we were.

I am trying to take an adequate photo of Katisha (our Abyssinian kitten) to put up here. She is huge, fast, graceful (of course).