We expected
snow Friday, and got it! LOTS of snow! It’s
a rather light snow that swept off the steps Friday morning despite the fact
there was several inches. I had been sweeping Thursday afternoon every hour or
so – and we got about 6 inches overnight.
I have Honey
“duty” in the morning – and as I was suiting up for her first foray out into
the whiteness, a truck drove up to the steps and the paper person tossed our
paper out – right at the bottom of the steps. Great service and after doing her
“thing”, Honey brought the paper back in the house for the carrot treat she
gets for the paper.
Schools in
the area were closed. Many, including our local school, closed Thursday in
anticipation of the snow fall. Around here, the snow didn’t fall until around 3
– and on the TV weather site on FB there was a lot of bitching about the
“wasted” snow day – NOT. It’s never easy to make a decision as to closing
school. However, as a former school administrator who had to make those kinds
of decisions you would rather err on the side of safety rather than ignore the
weather forecasters and open only to have to close early and potentially send
kids home to an empty house. There is more involved than the simple how much
snow will fall. Well, a good reason to enjoy retirement and be glad someone
else is making those decisions.
We had our
driveway plowed Friday but it was so cold and the cars were so covered we
stayed put until today (Sunday). B has been sick with an upper respiratory “thing”
that he went to the doctor’s for. The medicine seems to be helping but he is
still not up to speed. I got some sort of stomach bug that slowed me down so
for the past several days we have been lying low and not doing much. However,
yesterday I packed up all the Christmas stuff I had already brought down to the
storage area under the stairs and again sorted out some things. After lunch
yesterday I tackled the heater room – a wonderful storage area that has shelves
and is narrow but deep. I’m weeding as well as organizing. And then, in a spurt
of energy motivated by the desire to go out to breakfast this morning, I
cleaned the snow off two cars in the very cold, cold air. Didn’t realize but it
was in the low teens! When I came in I was both very tired and COLD. A hot
shower helped and we had a rather easy meal of green peppers/hamburger/rice mix
that was rather tasty and warming.
And this
morning we got out to breakfast and picked up two day’s mail as well as drop
the trash off. I’ve saved the USA Today paper from Friday to read tonight.
Right now I’m working in the loft and plan to start to sort through some old
pictures.
We are
expecting rain and the temperature is above freezing. However the concern is
will it be rain or sleet. So we also went to WalMart to pick up a few things
and at least I have lunch meat, bread and such should we be iced in.
We are
having baked chicken thighs for dinner along with potatoes and some veggie. It’s
been a rather quiet start to 2014.
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