Had to tie my coat around my waist as Pax and I took our big loop walk. Got in some decent furlongs while balanced on two wheels. Puttered in the garage, without numb fingers. Unseasonably warm, in other words.

Rain forecast in a few hours. Could the Zamboni actually work this time?

As George Washington put it, political parties are likely “to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government.”