It has been cold again this year but this year we are also getting more snow. They got a lot of snow in southern Virginia & North Carolina, so I wanted to go down and look at the snow on the farm. Well, it wasn’t a lot of snow by Wisconsin standards and it will melt in a few days, but there was more than usual and it created a different look for the place. You really wouldn’t guess that you were looking at southern Virginia.
I saw a couple cars in the ditch on the way down and I didn’t dare take the back roads, as I usually do. Instead I went down I95 all the way down to Emporia and then went over on 58. I also didn’t dare drive down the dirt roads on the farm. You can see that 623 was good in the spot above, but look near the bottom and you can see why I didn’t want to drive up the farm road. It is harder to walk through the snow but it is nice to feel it underfoot. There were a few animal track, but it was otherwise undisturbed. It is nice to have land.
It was a long trip to see it and it took longer because of the adverse weather conditions. I finished almost the entire audio-book Infotopia, which I found very interesting and useful (I hope) in my job. This was one of the three audio downloads on Audible.com that Mariza gave me for Christmas. It was a good gift. Audio books make long drives bearable and even beneficial. I lose my NPR a few miles outside Washington. I don’t like music radio or those silly talk shows that purport to give advice that will solve problems that I don’t have. Audio books do the job.
Another good audio program is “the Teaching Company”. Alex likes them too because they are around forty-five minutes long, which fits his workout schedule.
Anyway, take a look at the nice pictures.
