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Got another dusting of snow today. Not enough for the snow blower, and maybe not enough to shovel exactly. The salt spread out yesterday was melting a lot of what was on the sidewalk. But I want good sidewalks, so, I scraped ours clean and salted the remains. Tomorrow it's supposed to get above freezing and stay there until Wednesday, so we should have some great flood-caused ice sheets later this week, when we probably aren't going to have to go out. Anyway, here's more of the Turner-Dodge House, which I promise you does have an ending.

Peering down the stairs from the third to the second floor. You can see the scenic foreground and the old-time telephone in the distance; the guest bedroom is to the right of all that clutter.

Pop open a can of music and listen! Edison wax-cylinder player and recordings on display in the third-floor ballroom.

Looking along the ballroom. It was set up as though they'd had or expected to have events soon.

bunny_hugger getting a photo of the snow trying to restart itself, next to a very skinny tree.

The trace of snow outside, decorated with the reflection of Christmas-tree lights.

Some of the decorations on that skinny tree. I think this was a Christmas cracker, or an ornament meant to look like one.

Trivia: A year after the 1980 Winter games, the Lake Placid Olympic Arena hosted more then 700 ice hockey games and four ice shows, and was open to the public twenty hours a day.
Source: Encyclopedia of the Modern Olympic Movement, Editors John E Findling, Kimberly D Pelle.

Currently Reading: Heavenly Intrigue: Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and the Murder Behind One of History's Greatest Scientific Discoveries, Joshua Gilder, Anne-Lee Gilder. Confidence in a book like this is always shattered by the inconsequential errors, and having in the span of three pages a reference to ``James IV of Scotland, later crowned James I of England'' and also to an observational error being reduced to 21 seconds of arc, ``less than a third of a minute'' is ... mmm.