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So, winter arrived over the night. The first real snow of the year. Now we settle in for 6 months. Talk about timing. I just had the money to put the snows tires on. Last night, Bill and I finished clearing off some firewood from a 5 acre lot. The freezers are full. Time to cook and read. For my winter reading, I have started the History of WWII by Winston Churchill. I love how Americans always think they won that war on their own. It was Churchill who made that victory happen...."We know it will be hard; we expect it to be long, we cannot predict or measure its episodes or its tribulations. But one thing is certain, one thing is sure, one thing stands out stark and undeniable, massive and unassailable for all the world to see. We cannot see how deliverance will come or when it will come, but nothing is more certain that every trace of Hitler's footsteps, every stain of his infected, corroding fingers will be sponged and purged and, if need be, blasted from the surface of the earth". What a man. I often turn to him when this job gets to be too much. In other news, Sasha is home and doing great. Winter time.....

Full post as published by A Public Defender's Life in Alaska on November 06, 2010 (boomark / email).