Snow last night!! About 2", but it was gone quickly. I put a couple of pictures of tulips in the snow on my home page. Some people lost power as the snow brought down some tree limbs, especially on trees that had put out leaves due to the warm spring.

Almost all of the snow was gone by evening.

Nice bike ride to/from work today, but still not happy with the back tire. I'm afraid I have a slow leak, but don't know whether I screwed up when changin the tube last week, or if there's something still stuck in the tire that I didn't find when checking it out. Not good. My total time was affected, and I wondered why I wasn't really coasting along well on the way to work this morning. Only got up to 31.5 mph on Simpson's Hill, instead of my usual 35-38.

Mmmm...

Snow showers, but nothing accumulating.

We had to have a water line fixed. The main pipe out at the street had cracked, with water coming through the ground. I believe this happened as a result of the earthquake on Saturday, as that was when I first noticed the water. Were there similar breaks elsewhere??

Tennis in the wind with Peter... 50 degrees with a 25-30 mph "breeze" that made thing interesting. Snow expected tomorrow. What was that I said about global warming??

Went for a quick hike/walk at Parker Mountain in Strafford. I like to make a loop that goes near the top twice, for the extra exercise and scenery. Came back before any precipitation. Got very near a moose, which crashed through the trees ahead of me. I had seen its footprints in the trail for a long stretch. Never actually saw the moose, however. Lots of birds - a hawk, turkey vulture, partridge, mourning doves, and more.

Felt the earthquake this morning -- 6:52 AM by my clock. Shook things quite a bit, but no damage. I realize it's not a big deal to people in California (Hi Peter, Marc, anyone else out there!), but it's only the third or fourth I've ever felt, and it's definitely in the news.

A magnitude 5.1 earthquake in NEW YORK has occurred at:
44.51N 73.66W Depth 5km Sat Apr 20 10:50:44 2002 UTC

Time: Universal Time (UTC) Sat Apr 20 10:50:44 2002
Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) Sat Apr 20 06:50:44 2002
Central Daylight Time (CDT) Sat Apr 20 05:50:44 2002
Mountain Daylight Time (MDT) Sat Apr 20 04:50:44 2002
Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) Sat Apr 20 03:50:44 2002
Alaska Daylight Time (ADT) Sat Apr 20 02:50:44 2002
Hawaii Standard Time (HST) Sat Apr 20 00:50:44 2002

Location with respect to nearby cities:
15 miles (25 km) SW of Plattsburgh, New York (pop 21,000)
20 miles (35 km) W of Burlington, Vermont (pop 39,000)
55 miles (90 km) WNW of MONTPELIER, Vermont (pop 8,000)
130 miles (205 km) N of ALBANY, New York

More info at http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/neic_deam.html

Here's a link with a nice map showing how people interpreted how strong the quake felt: http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/ne/STORE/Xdeam/ciim_display.html

Beth is in Paris, and Peter had his first tennis match as a high school freshman (only an exhibition, but great experience). Lost to a guy who looked like he could be in college, but put up a good fight. The team won, though, and that's what's important. A great job by the team -- 3-3 in the singles, but came back in doubles and won those matches 3-0, I think.

Nice bike ride *to* work today, but........ I had a flat tire when I got to the bike this afternoon. Not sure what happened yet. But, as this was the first flat tire I had had on this bike, I wasn't used to removing it to fix. I managed to pinch the tube in *several* places, and ran out of patches in my kit to be able to ride home. Grrrrrrrrr....

Luckily, after calling home and calling Beth (my daughter) on her cell phone with no results, I ran into Elaine, at work, who very kindly offered to bring me home. Let the world (or whoever views this site) know that Elaine is a wonderful person to have done this for me!!

I have since gone to the bike shop, Tony's in Dover, and purchased a couple of tubes and a new patch kit.

Hot day, but supposed to be a bit cooler tomorrow.

Beth's off to France tomorrow for 10 days. Hopefully world events won't cause undo concerns about her safety while she's away.

By the way -- nobody has come forward with offers to sponsor her college costs (at tuition@mherlihy.org). Don't let me down!

Busy week-
Peter went to Cincinnati for a PRIDE conference
Beth's getting ready to go to France this Thursday
Biked to work Wednesday (very windy ride home - thought I was not going to make it)
Biked to work Friday (very windy ride home - behind me all the way!!!!!!!!!)
Bought a new truck Saturday (Toyota Tacoma Xtra Cab 4x4 - old truck was 9 years old and in need of big $$ repairs soon)
Visited with Uncle Ted Saturday evening.

Go Red Sox! (although I know it's a waste of time and energy)

Go Tiger! (a better bet, if I were a betting man)

Come on Big Money $325 million (OK - I bet a little when friends at work bet -- I don't want to be the only one left if the numbers come up!)

Went for a nice walk at Kingman Farm yesterday. Spring is here, finally.

Took down the frame to the skating rink, and stacked up all the wood for the summer. I've told myself I really don't want to go through the effort again next fall, but I'll probably forget by then.

The weather is still so cool and windy. We had warmer days most of February than we're having now. Peter practiced tennis while snow flakes drifted down on Friday. Strange...

Well, it's been pretty busy lately. Peter's tennis, Beth at all kinds of meetings, Paula at meetings and events, and me with work (beeper keeping me up nights), updating the web site (check out the scrap book pictures on the DHS 1973 portion) and at chorus practice. I guess it's all better than wasting away one's life.