after a perfectly lovely afternoon in which i packed, sledded, ate half-frozen m’n’ms, tried to teach Rachel to snowboard, showed her my own talents which resulted in whizzing down a hill and landing on my rear in a ditch, and walked home across the smooth powder under a decidedly purple twilight sky … i am now about to hop in a car with my father and brave the roads. we may be back e’er long, but i really must try to catch my bus. so … off i go again to the land of limited internet access where i must wait for Thursday to catch up with all of your blogs. i shall be back in may! (or maybe in just an hour…)