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“There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you …..  In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.”

Ruth Stout

(That quote captures what I love about winter and snow days. And since someone is bound to ask, the house above is across the street; our more modest, but very cosy one, is last below.)

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