February 6

2/06/08: Wednesday, 9:00 AM. 13 degrees, barometer predicting partly cloudy skies. Wind E, light.
There is a little old house on 8th St. which I have noticed has had a vehicle with Vermont license pates parked in the drive, and I have been curious as to why someone would come to bayfield from Vermont in the winter. I talked to the owner this morning as he was leaving the house, and it turns out he is a professor from UV who in cooperation with a professor from UW is doing sociological studies of boaters, and they have been thus engaged for over twenty years. He is here in winter for the first time, writing a book. He says it is colder here than in Vermont. I didn’t ask if he had seen any boaters lately in Bayfield. Bayfield is obviously a good place for book writing in the winter.