Another American Adventure: Cold in PA!!!

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Cold in PA!!!

This is what John was facing this morning! Jubilee and I will be there by mid February ... can't wait!

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BarbaraJanuary 23, 2013 at 9:24 PM
It felt like -36F in Montreal today! Coldest it has been in Montreal in two years.
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beth cioffolettiJanuary 24, 2013 at 10:22 AM
Stay warm, Barbara. Jubilee and I are starting to get packed up! WE will be heading NORTH on February 10th. Hope there's still some winter left when we get there, and then on to springtime!
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"In those first days, people said, a squirrel could run the long length of Pennsylvania without ever touching the ground. In those first days, the woods were white oak and chestnut, hickory, maple, sycamore, walnut, wild ash, wild plum, and white pine. The pine grew on the ridgetops where the mountains' lumpy spines stuck up and their skin was thinnest.

"The wilderness was uncanny, unknown. Benjamin Franklin had already invented his stove in Philadelphia by 1753, and Thomas Jefferson was a schoolboy in Virginia; French soldiers had been living in forts along Lake Erie for two generations. But west of the Alleghenies in western Pennsylvania, there was not even a settlement, not even a cabin. No Indians lived there, or even near there.

"Wild grapevines tangled the treetops and shut out the sun. Few songbirds lived in the deep woods. Bright Carolina parakeets - red, green, and yellow - nested in the dark forest. There were ravens then, too. Woodpeckers rattled the big trees' trunks, ruffed grouse whirred their tail feathers in the fall, and every long once in a while a nervous gang of empty-headed turkeys came hustling and kicking through the leaves - but no one heard any of this, no one at all."

Annie Dillard, An American Childhood.