Winter 2008

Chloe and I had the good fortune of house-sitting this winter at Cobb Hill, a co-housing community in Hartland, Vermont. It's a lovely place in multiple ways—people, setting, houses, ideals.

Susie & Hal's house, our house-sitting home. (Ladder for clearing ice & snow from leaky skylight—really fun the first time.) Mt Ascutney at left.

A fine picture at every window.

Raking snow from the roof to prevent ice dams.

Friends Marta and John.

It's a working farm, with award-winning cheese (partners shown here) among other enterprises.

The hens.

Serious snow! This wood is for the central furnace that heats all the houses. Everyone takes turns feeding it.

A foggy day out the dining room window.

You can ski a 6 mile loop out the back door.

In mid-March we drove up to Montreal for a quick visit.

It was a REALLY snowy winter—believe it or not, this is the top of a park bench!

At Parc La Fontaine (a few blocks from our hotel) they plow the lake for skating.

And everybody uses it!

We were excited to rent skates for Chloe, but the rental place was inexplicably closed. (This was March 17.)

Well at least somebody brought his skates...

How much bigger is this skate than Chloe's foot, anyway?

Worth a shot.

A bit like clown feet, but better than sitting in the snow.

Seems to work!

So we took turns.

Too bad we couldn't join the game of baby carriage hockey.

It was a great winter.