New basketball game ... no photos, but Paul woke up at last night's basketball game in Mill Creek Valley Junior High (Plaxico). It was like a light went on off over his head and he knew where to be, and he was clearly more engaged and he made his first basket!! Or, as they say in basketball parlance "bucket."

What is interesting is that it is the same gym where The Man had his last high school basketball game in, what 1966? So, that added a little interest to the evening.

I'm ready for spring. Winter is OK until after Christmas, then I'm done. Odd for someone who spent so much time in the mountains, and the cold never used to bother me, but it is mainly the wind. Ick. Done. I want to start up with the garden, and with the chickens, and landscape the pond.