My great helper

There appears to be little systematic snow removal from city sidewalks, but generous sprinkles of sand are applied.  This leaves all of our boot very messy when we come home, so we've instituted taking shoes off at the door.  In order to keep our hard wood floors clean, we bought a swifter mop yesterday.  Delaney was eager to use it and helped mop the upstairs last night. (The owners had the floor waxed before our arrival.  It looks beautiful, but all of us have slipped down several times.  We'll be glad when its a little less slippery.)