I collected on my Christmas present from Katherine this weekend. I have started baking bread, especially sourdough bread, over the past few years so Katherine gifted me with a four-hour class: “The Magic of Wild Yeasts: Sourdough” offered at the King Arthur Baking Education Center in Norwich VT. The class was taught by Amber Eisler, one of their on-staff instructors. She is excellent.
This was a test run to see if I enjoyed the experience and thought it worthwhile. I certainly did. Now we need to decide when to return and take a few weekend classes. (Katherine would obviously take a higher, much higher, level class than I would).
We stayed at the Lake Mourey Resort in Fairlee VT. One of their signature winter offerings is a 4.5 mile skating loop around the lake. Not this weekend (or last, or the one before that…). The ice was unsafe. Open water was actually visible.
I grew up in New England and went skiing in VT and New Hampshire a lot as a kid. I remember January. It was cold, the snow was deep, the rivers and lakes were frozen, ice boats would be out and all in all it was winter wonderland time.
This felt like mid March in New Jersey or downstate New York. There was very little snow on the ground, as noted above, nothing was frozen solidly enough for skating. Does it mean anything? In the short-term, probably not. It will snow in VT. The lakes will freeze at some point this year but long-term?
The climate patterns are changing. Make of that what you will.
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