The weather here is amazing. it has been about sixty degrees for the past three days.
Everybody is happier, including me. I see people smiling on the streets. Oh yeah, the streets---the huge walls of snow and ice have befun to melt and as a result the sidewalks have become like rivers. People put boxes connected by plywood down in the sidewalk and everyone walks on that to avoid being soaked to the waist by five-month-old-snow-water.

This is funny though and not really that inconvenient. I think it should be like this al the time, even when there is no water on the ground.

Actually the weather is so good that I devoted two days solely to the substantial "Pleasure Boating" section of my Russian book. I learned about fifty words including: kayak, anchor, dinghy, inflatable raft, outboard motor, and most importantly of all: hook.