Outside my second window I can see the roof of the upstairs front porch

And from that roof I get the biggest icicles. I'm sure we have icicles on all sides of our house, which I simply can't reach, but the ones I can get to from my window sometimes get as big as my arm or larger - I swear one year I had one bigger than Ana! But of course, she was smaller then.

I used to take these icicles for myself to lick and then throw out the window or keep in the freezer until summer (something which never works as well as you think), but now I give one each to the nieces. Oh, I know you're not supposed to eat snow anymore and all that, but they don't really eat that much of it before they get bored!

So the big icicles, in the corner by my window, are all gone. (We might get more again soon, it's been snowing off and on all day.) But the little ones I couldn't reach, at the far end, are still there. And it's so strange - they had started out going straight down, like you'd expect, but now that the snow on top has melted some and they're hanging on by a thread (one just popped off just now!) they're all leaning in at an angle, towards the porch. Maybe the base of the icicle wears away unevenly? But why on the side *away* from the sun, then?

Well, I get paid today (by my mother for being with my grandmother)

No word on if/when Jenn will be paying me again now that she has her new job. (She works in the same office as our mom, which is not as hilarious as it sounds.)

So, having been paid on the same day I got an email from donorschoose.org I decided to donate some cash over. (I think I'm on a mailing list or something, but that's all right.)

And I did donate a little. I mostly pick projects that are close to completion and/or about to expire soon.

AFTER I donated, I saw this. I don't have $530, and it expires in six days, but she lists two of the Knight and Rogue books as books to buy for her library (although she doesn't list the third, so I wonder if it's out yet). Often I think that teachers and all would do better to make many small project requests than one big one. That way, even if you can't get enough money for all the books you can get enough for some, right?

At any rate, it's expiring in six days, and the odds of it being completed in that time when it has no donations yet are slim, but I thought I'd put it up and see what I could see.