… snow predicted by the weather app has materialized… conditions are going to be at their worst at our anticipated start time and as we climb over the (not very tall, but tall enough for lower temps and freezing) mountains… i am weighing options and leaning towards aborting departure until tomorrow or next day when weather will be better… H will not be happy but, we do not work a day job anymore and there really is no reason for us to take risks… we should be able to reschedule our ferry reservation to the next couple of days, the timing of the snow is perfectly placed to be disruptive…

… i have reviewed the radar map and relative projections… the situation is more significant in Connecticut which is most of our journey…

… HCR with a nice piece on Abraham Lincoln… timely too… we are facing similar challenges to our democracy in the present moment… would love to have a leader such as Lincoln step forward…

… we lost a chicken yesterday… hawk brazenly feeding on it as i did the food and water… brazenly perching on top of the coup… i disable the auto door to the main coup… chickens will have to stay put… otherwise hawk will pick them off one by one… as B famously says, nature wants you dead, especially if you are a chicken… actually, death is simply a part of living… for creatures with predators, a premature end is always a risk of living…

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