Snow
The Government has issued a travel warning due to the bad winter weather. They suggest that anyone traveling in the current icy conditions should make sure they have the following: Shovel Blankets Or Sleeping Bag Extra Clothing, Including Hat And Gloves 24 Hours Worth Of Food De-Icer Rock Salt Flashlight With Spare Batteries Road Flares Or [...]
I didn’t take these pictures, but I wish I had.
This is a pretty standard view of our city streets these days – One of my joys in being part of an international family is introducing Olga (and now Valerie) to my home culture; today (sleepy) Valerie had her first bacon and egg breakfast. This is probably the first time she’s eaten bacon, and she [...]
The snows are falling and cars are disappearing. Here our car emerges from a snowy grave –
Thanksgiving Day, 2010 — winter has arrived: We live on the 5th floor of a flat in the city center. This is a view of the двор (courtyard). All of our windows face south and look over this courtyard.
This was the view outside this morning here in Finland — wet snow, but it didn’t stick.
Sergei Tovstopyat, John Bull and I went to Camp Elama today to look things over and make a few decisions about the upcoming work. Sergei is building brick stoves in cabins 2 and 3, so we took at look at that work. We also were deciding how to upgrade the water storage system, where to [...]
Yesterday I had to run some errands down town, and decided to walk part of the way back home. Just before the New Year we had a record snow fall since 1881, so much that the city almost came to a full stop for a few days. Things are a little better now, but it [...]
