Mad as a March hare

Air temperature 30 F, wind NNE about 10 mph, moderate to heavy snow falling. Managed the newspaper walk with minimal peril.

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The day every infantryman dreads -- March Fourth.

Simple gifts

Wind has quieted to the point where snow is stacking up in neat triangles on the thistle-feeder perches, apex to the end of the perch rod and hypotenuse back to the feeder tube. And then a junco flies in and fans the snowflakes away for a landing.

Mechanized warfare

Driveway and car and steps and sidewalk cleared. Now the city plow can come by and erase our efforts as if we never lived.

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It's the end of the world as we know it.

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And Maine records our ninth snowmobile fatality of the season.

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On the snowmobile thing -- according to the Warden Service, most common causes of snowmobile accidents are speed, alcohol, and inexperience. Some of the crashes score the trifecta.