2 January 2016

After New Year’s festivities with Frank, Fran, and Anne in Connecticut (which included a foray into New York City to see Kate starring in Shear Madness) followed by an overnight visit with Katy, Alex, and Devin in Massachusetts, Chree and I drove up to Manchester, NH in the Tacoma to take possession of her new 2016 Subaru Forester 2.5i Premium, red in color.  (And, yes, the car does have heated seats!)  We then convoyed to Fern Lake, arriving mid-afternoon, to find that Kate (kind soul that she is) had left the heat on for us in her house.  Only an inch or two of white stuff, mostly ice, left on our driveway (Kate’s had been plowed).  No problem for two 4WD / AWD vehicles, even without studded snow tires.  Snow on the house roof had about half slid off.  The inside of our house was a water pipe-friendly 40°, just as expected.  The lake, indicating 35°F two feet below the surface (which was 18″ below the top of the dock), had nary an ice crystal.