Morning walk a little hard on the face, though Pax found it to his liking. Ice is forming and thickening many places.

Iceboats are sailing and a regatta is called on for this weekend, though not good timing for the Nies/Janowiec syndicate.

In principle, the founders opposed all political parties on the grounds that, as George Washington put it, they 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.”