Will, Kate, and Ab here for an overnight, with Tony at Battle Lake, Minnesota, for the International Skeeter Association annual regatta. (He is beating the big names on the racing circuit and could win the whole thing.)

Here, we have had a slight return to winter.

Elsewhere, the younger Nies family is enjoying an even bigger slice of winter at their north woods cabin— where the ice remains thick enough for ice fishing and recent snow is sufficient for snowmobiling.