It's not much but we woke up to our first snow covering of the season this morning. This is the view at the end of our driveway. The temperature was 20.2 degrees.
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A piece in Harvard Magazine wrapping up the 2015 Harvard football season reprises in part the remarkable story of how the Ivy League offensive player of the year got the starting job almost by default. From the story:
(Scott) Hosch was named first-team All-Ivy quarterback, New England Player of the Year, and Ivy Offensive Player of the Year. These accolades are especially remarkable considering that the native of Sugar Hill, Georgia, never went into preseason practice as the team’s number-one quarterback: in 2014 he backed up Conner Hempel ’15, and last summer he was slotted behind Joseph Viviano ’17, who would miss the season because of a broken foot suffered before play began.A sobering thought for others around the Ivy League: Viviano, the quarterback who was going to start at Harvard over the Ivy League's offensive player of the year will be back next fall and, if he so chooses, he'll be able to apply for a medical redshirt and return again the following season.
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And finally, That Certain '14 arrived at Everglades National Park yesterday in anticipation of starting her new seasonal position as an educational ranger for the NPS. Quite a change from where she spent her first two postings with the park service, at Colorado National Monument and Yellowstone ;-)That Certain Nittany Lion Senior, by the way, has made it home for the holidays but hasn't given up the idea of finding a way to take in the Gator Bowl (I refuse to call it the TaxSlayer Bowl) between Penn State and Georgia on Jan. 2 in Jacksonville.
