Yes, it's -12 degrees this morning. Granted, that's celsius, but it still counts as dang cold in my book. Walking Greta to school yesterday with my scarf wrapped around my face up to my eyes reminded me of the winters in Madison when my eyelashes would freeze on the walk to class. And yesterday was only -7.
We had snow on Saturday that the kids really enjoyed playing in--there were snow angels made on the side of the sidewalk on our way to the palace. Dan had to force me not to be a killjoy as I KNOW how much dog poop is on those sidewalks!
That snow was never shoveled, and it has since frozen into a half inch thick sheet of ice that covers every sidewalk and all of the roads. I saw someone attempting to provide traction on the ice by spreading wood chips on the ice! Has no one heard of rock salt? The trains were packed yesterday--don't know whether it was people refusing to bike or drive to work. Both seem like a bad idea!
For the good news....we have proper wireless DSL service in the house! The Deutschetelekom man came yesterday in the last 30 minutes of his 4 hour window and did something in our cellar. He spoke no English & it was fine. Hooray for German classes! Granted he wouldn't make the DSL work in our office which used to be part of an apartment with the street address of Danckelmannstrasse 11 (not Seelingstrasse 42 which is what his orders said to do). For the most part, the perpetual rearranging of rooms within Berlin apartment buildings is pretty cool. In this case, we wound up with internet in the kids' room rather than our office. It's ok.
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