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The odd thing about blogging is that you really do want people to read what you’ve written, even though you know it’s truly not that interesting. But still . . . so now and then I try to promote the blog and link up to other things. Yesterday I linked up to Geourl, a sort of geographical locator (but not a mapper, quite) for blogs, and within hours I’d been looked up through it by about 10 new people. Well, shut my mouth!

Cold morning for ski lessons, and I think instead of blowing $25 on and hour and a half of skiing while the kids are in lessons, I’m gonna strap on my snowshoes and hike up the hill. Anything to keep warm. Plus, I’ve got those fancy Leki trekking poles I’ve barely gotten to use, so this would be a good chance. Not that I wouldn’t like to ski again, but it’s going to be unsunny, so the saving grace of a morning on the slopes in single digits will be gone. Snowshoes it is.

Right now, the kids are in the living room looking at things under a very nice microscope my mom gave Hannah for Christmas, the kind with a screen so they don’t have to press their eyes up against a lens. Bekah: “Air! I want to look at air!” Tangerine strings and cranberries have been a great success so far.