Over to Madison for a fun day with Nik, and a quick stop at the West Marine store to pick up a quart of bottom paint, for the Windrider and the Susie P—on the assumption that spring and summer will be coming sometime.

Weather moderate but windy, and the forecast looks grim.

How can the month with the fewest days be the longest?

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O Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

—P.B. Schelley