Happy New Year from Snowy Ohio!

Happy New Year friends! We hope you are healthy and happy, if not we hope you get that way soon. Ally and I are back in C-Bus, for me that means back to work and applications (just one more to go!), and for Ally that means she just started taking new classes (Disability Studies and Rhetoric) and teaching Women's Health. I will be looking for some part time/anytime work too in order to finance some upcoming trips (any suggestions?). The news stations here in Columbus are all a-buzz with the upcoming snow storm... we're expected to get an accumulation of 4 inches today! Our friends from Boston can imagine how hilarious all the excitement and worry over this measly amount of snow seems to Ally and I, but people here seriously can not drive in snow- at all. So while we may snicker at people 'stocking up' (on last nights news a lady was getting some essentials just in case - mostly mountain dew) driving in the snow here is dangerous, both because of the drivers and the predisposition of anything melted to turn to black ice quickly due to the cold winds our flat, flat home has blowing across it. Luckily(?) we don't have a car and we have cats to keep us entertained should we have a snow day.

Speaking of cats, this morning Bob and Diz had a face to face encounter with the primal. It was a stand-off whose tension was exaggerated by the mere centimeter thick glass pane that prevented what I'm sure would have been a close and vicious battle. Bob managed to stand straight up to glare at what looked like a pretty chubby squirrel that was looking into our kitchen window, while Diz tried to figure out what was going on with his head between Bob's rear legs (he never really did).