Month: February 2002

In the great “shovel or not?” debate, I am kind of not shovelling right now. It’s raining like heck, and it’s starting to ice up on everything, so some part of me thinks it just a teeny bit safer to have a bit of snow under the ice cover.

But at least we still have heat and electricity here. I saw pictures of Oklahoma and, well, wow. Ice is forming on stuff, but it’s not too thick. I will keep an eye on our birch trees and move the van if they start bending. I heard it’s pushing 50 in Boston, but we here 35 miles away aren’t so lucky. I’m guessing it’s 30 or so right now.

We didn’t get the 7 inches of snow they were predicting, and I can’t say I’m all that sorry about it. I know some people would only be happy with two feet of snow but I’m not one of them. It’s pretty icy out. I’m not going to leave the house until it warms up a little. Mookie will just stay here with me today. He’s soooo sad about it. Poor kid, he’s running around the house just having the best time.

I know I have to leave the house today because I’m in charge of bringing the chip/dip type foods to the Superbowl party. Can’t have a party without onion dip, can you? I think I’ll also make some of that Hidden Valley Ranch dip we first had at T&D’s Christmas pah-ty. I guess that means I need to buy carrots and broccoli and stuff too. Hey, they are veggies, they count, right? I’m going to try to be good, because I’m down another two pounds. I think that puts the total at 7 pounds from just before Thanksgiving. I want to do the last 3 pounds REALLY badly, because man, losing 10 pounds just sounds SO cool.

Oh, and I fixed the links on the left. You can thank me later.