But me, I’m thinking “slush,” because the predominant weather pattern (snow, rain, freeze, lather, rinse, repeat) has left us with that as our only constant.

Yesterday, though, the scheduled Port City Winter Carnival coincided with the only six-hour stretch in the last six weeks where it was cold enough to have frozen the pond but yet warm and dry enough to enjoy it. And here we are:

wintercarnival

I am now officially the kind of woman who can wrangle two children under five backwards, on ice skates. See if you can spot my bad athletic self, “Where’s Waldo” style.

Edited to add: It’s 61 degrees today. I could go kayaking on that pond.