Finished helping buying a house yesterday for someone, helping them move next week. Then disappearing for a while.
Everything seems to get more difficult each year. 30 years ago you’d walk into an office and sign and then own a month later. Now you’re forced glued to a phone and takes 4 months. I’m not sure the Internet made everything better.
Honey and maple syrup in those and taste just great.
Shame we couldn’t post some to you for evaluation 
Its not the “internet” its the rules!
The bureaucracy.
There are thousands of clerks and officials inventing rules and forms day by day.
Otherwise it would be evident they are useless. 
What shall we do Paul?
But its so great to be in touch.
We know each other meanwhile.
Charlie!
What can I tell you?
Heavy snowfalls here the whole day, now it changed to rain.
Neighbor’s kids built a kind of snow castle in the park in the front of our house.
Heavy battles the whole afternoon!
GOOD!
Much better than all these senseless computer games. 
Found a nice fado.
Gives me some summer feeling!
So peaceful music!
No snow here Franz, although the weather forecasters say we “might” get snow. Well I 'might" win the lottery, but probably won’t
The music reminds me of sitting outside a cafe in Spain, drinking wine and soaking up the sun.
Portugal, Paul.
In Spain they got flamenco
A little more “hot”.
Spanish are different from Portuguese.
I like them both.
Here is a real master!
I have some vinyls of him.
Finished this up mid week and just in time for more snow this weekend… not bad for our first attempt at an igloo…
Mental note for next time… larger blocks…
Lol
Hm, winning an architecture award?
But for the first attempt its OK!
I saw the kids today filling tubs and such way creating some kind of big blocks.
Good idea they had.
But now its melting! 
Been lucky here the snow keeps either turning to rain or moving slightly to just miss my area so not much shovels has been done so far. Been watching American football this weekend it’s been pretty exciting. Besides that starting to get ready to go back for my last semester. Just got my schedule of the physics and astronomy labs I am helping out next semester. Hope all are doing well.
Seen this in books so far. Its really cool. House of ice 
I hope everyone is having a great weekend
The last semester!
That sounds good
Do you have plans what you will do when you finished your studies, Kaitlyn?
Nice “toys”.
And do these work properly?
Yeah they do. They don’t come with a charging brick but I have plenty of them laying around. I’ll probably end up giving them away to family since I have many wireless chargers 
Well maybe not, but at least it didn’t suffer a full collapse. Going to check the inside this week and see how the acoustics sound.
Watering would help to keep it stable.
I have no idea how the Inuit are building such an igloo.
You may know better, living closer to them. 
I bought me such a jacket last week.
Warm and perfect.
My wife said I look like a “Canadian woodcutter” now.
Yes, I am in a kind of wood business when feeding the tile stove!
There is a song to sing with that jacket on, and when cutting up the wood…
Goes a little like…
I’m a lumberjack and I’m okay, I chop up wood all night and day…
Looks warm…
Had rain on the weekend, so that should fortify the Fort, we’ll see.
What about these guys!
I am more familiar with!
Look up sublimation. Water moves between it’s solid liquid and gas states continually , being a macro version of quantum mechanics. So the ice near the surface of an ice block will melt and freeze so the separate ice blocks become one over time. You simply need to leave it alone for a day before going inside. If you go inside immediately it’s quite unsafe. The pressure between the ice blocks is greater on the inside (gravity) so the process of sublimation is faster inside. That’s how Igloos work.
So igloos work due to state change, understood as thermodynamics, and underneath is quantum mechanics as expressed in Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
