The sky does not have a single cloud and is a bright blue contrasted with the white snow on the ground. A beautiful winter day, except that the temperature is struggling to reach 20 and the wind is howling in the trees. Oh well I tell folks all of the time that we have 10 days in the summer when it is to hot to go outside and 10 days in the winter when it is to cold to go outside. Today is one of the cold ones.
Winter is here in full force this week with some snow on Monday followed by bitter cod. The high on Wednesday was around 8 I had a meeting in the afternoon and the temperature fell from 6 when I went in to 0 when I came out at around 5:30. The current forecast calls for snow again tomorrow with accumulations of around 6 inches or so. The dogs are in the house most of the time when the temperature is so cold. Mae the pointer thinks that she has died and gone to heaven. She spends most of her time stretched out on the floor right next to the wood stove.
The Land for Maine Futures Board will have to decide this week whether to fund a conservation easement involving the Appalachian Mountain Club in the Katahdin Iron Works section of Northern Maine. The obvious thing is that setting aside open land for the future is a great idea and one that has made considerable progress in the last decade. In fact I heard at some event last week that roughly 7 percent of Maine has been set aside in the last decade, not too shabby.
