Friend, former classmate Greg Bird emailed me this sketch of life on the shore of Lake Michigan:

…just went out and bought a 50# bag of sand today for about $2.75 – salt is now at a premium and selling at around 10 bucks for 10# bag.  The stuff is poison for this freshwater environment, so here’s to sand and tire chains.  Shoveling?  It’s just a daily routine – I hardly notice it anymore.  (yawn . . .)  It was fun knocking down the icecicles today with a long bamboo pole – it probably took a hundred pounds off the gutter, which is frozen solid.  The side streets, like ours, and alleys, are packed with ice and a real car suspension test – one might wonder about all those rough pavements at auto test tracks, but not around here.

Needless to say, very different from the Bay Area… 

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