Snow!

While I'm quick to single out winter as my least favorite season, I readily admit that December has a lot going for it (namely Christmas and often the first serious snowfall). And so I feel no shame reporting the glee I felt when I woke up to a steady snowfall this morning. Seeing as we're a week into December and snow is falling, I consider the Christmas season officially underway. Ellen and I have some Christmas tree and light shopping to do in the next couple weeks, which will be a lot of fun to do together.

I have opened December in New Hampshire for five of the past six years now, but this is the first time that the month was not ushered in by college finals. Definitely a change for the better. I am nevertheless reminded of one of my favorite seasonal videos, which sustained (distracted) me through many a late night preparing for final exams.



In other news, I read this morning about a proposed Noah's Ark-themed amusement park in Kentucky. No word yet on whether development will proceed ahead of possible constitutional challenges, nor on whether there will be any roller-coasters at the park.