@. . . .   I have thought that perhaps you might be interested in the news that we received about 45cm of snow last week. For the previous few days, the nightime temperature has been 5-10 degrees F. Tomorrow, with much snow still on the ground, we will get a major ice storm, unless the weathermen are wrong. Remembering last year, I hope that they are. I unknowingly agreed to work tomorrow, so I must be out on the road even though it will be a Sunday.
  Too bad I am not an enthusiastic football fan. I might have stayed home for the Super Bowl.
  Hoping for a warm spell,

@. . . .   Thank you for your message and for the Mars images and the news of CMO 227. I forwarded the previous Mars images to an amateur astronomer friend who works full time at the hospital where I work part time. He is not an active planet observer, but we make tempt him into being one.
  I am sorry about your mother's decline in health. We must wait another week for biopsy results before we know the extent of the illness of Uta's mother.
  The ice storm that I wrote about earlier did arrive, but for some reason its full force missed Hopewell. Many people were without electricity for days in the Richmond area, but we never lost power. I was able to work at the hospital and even saw the exciting end of the Super Bowl with the patients there. Some patches of snow are still here and there in shaded areas. Most roads are completely clear.
  I have tried numerous times to observe Jupiter and Saturn, but the seeing has been very poor. I think that the severe cold weather and so many chimneys with heat rising from them doom an observer this time of year. Several friends have sent messages about events on Jupiter, but I have been unable to see them for myself.
  Your young fan Tyler is growing, and he has had no more asthma attacks. He is a lot of fun, one of the great joys of my life. David is still studying Japanese. He is about two inches taller than I am now - and still growing.
With best wishes for the lunar new year,