Today felt like I've finally settled into winter after all these months of practice. Around here, there is usually much hand wringing about fitting in as much as humanly possible on the weekend. I had big plans for today -- big plans. Then the snow started coming down, another log went into the fire and the urgency of getting out and going melted into puttering around and staying, so I decided to be brave and go with it, and that's when good things started to happen.


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