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Project Scorpion (Top Secret) D minus 3. My walkie-talkies are not working well. C, D: do you have walkie-talkies?

Project Scorpion (Top Secret) D minus 4. Requisitioned essential materiel at Ax-Man surplus store.

Today is D-Day minus 4. Top Secret. Project Scorpion. Prepared vault that can only be opened with the secret code.

Today is D-Day minus 5. Top Secret. Project Scorpion. C, D: Stand by for further information and orders.

We both love soup (a hilarious line from “Best in Show) so we’re attending a winter soup (demonstration) cooking class this evening

Snow falling, making fresh footprints. Walk and chat with a friend up one side of Mississippi and down the other.

Sunny winter’s day. Walked to library, Downtown.

Today, worked on shortlist of places to hike. Used Google, Google Earth, Garmin MapSource, Evernote, and a paper map.

Hacked garage door opener controller board. The heavy duty soldering iron didn’t fry the board, and the hack worked.

At French Meadow Bakery/Cafe today, waiting for Cajun hashbrowns: the meal fortified me for a 4-hour business meeting.

Thrill du jour: temperature inside our exterior walls right now. It has been a quiet day.

Installed sensor to control pipe temperature when it’s really cold outside. It should prevent another frozen pipe.

Today it was too cold for the schools to open, but not too cold for nephew C. to snowboard.

False dilemma: “The winters are too cold. Why don’t you move?” Here’s my reply.

Sunny winter’s day, a good day to walk on the squeaky sub-zero snow. Spotted a snow monster and a cyclist on the lake.

Ran around Lake of the Isles. Now, this is my preferred view until Wednesday when the high will next be above zero F.