Month: December 2002

Yikes, that was some nasty stuff. The snowblower refused to move the stuff down at the end of the driveway. I am seriously very lucky that my back isn’t broken from the effort to remove the snow from the driveway. Heavy isn’t the word for it. I eventually just put the snowblower away because it wasn’t doing much for me. The slush was basically gurgling up over the top of the blower back onto the ground in a new location.

Junior was ever so slightly more helpful this time around. He had a little wagon and he was taking lumps of “coal” to the “garbage factory”.

Me: So wait, it’s a factory that makes garbage?

Him: Ya, the dumptrucks come and get it.

Hey, it made shovelling interesting anyway.

Okay, so we got our ice and snow storm, and didn’t lose any trees. The power did go out for about ten minutes in the middle of the night – I happened to hear the big popping sound down at the substation right before it happened. Power was only off for 10 minutes, luckily. I have to say, we’ve had amazing luck with the electricity in this house (other than the night it went out 5 minutes before they announced the winner of the 2nd Survivor and didn’t come back on for 2 hours). It might have something to do with being so close to the substation AND that our power lines are all underground. I have to say, it makes for clean lines AND nobody can knock out our power by ramming into a pole.

I told my dad this morning that last night around midnight when I was watching it snow, it was sticking to everything like blown-in insulation. I knew it was that back-breaking sticky wet snow. And now it’s time for me to go outside and deal with it. I guess it’s going to be my first attempt to use the snowblower. Wish me luck.

I have no idea how I’m going to catch up on all the television I have stored on the TiVo. It’s the time of year I love the most, and I’ve got buttloads of Xmas specials now, never mind my regular stuff. And my regular stuff I can’t watch when Junior is around so I guess I have to break my “no TV during the day” rule to catch up on the Osbournes and the Sopranos. Sopranos are done for the season so I can cancel HBO now. In fact, I’m going to go do it RIGHT now.

Uh-Oh. When I looked at my yahoo page for all today’s news and schtuff, there was a little red asterisk next to the word “Leominster” in the weather box. You know what that means. It means there’s some sort of weather crisis about to break. This is the “*severe weather alert” system. Ugh.

Let’s see what we can expect for severe weather this week. Says here: “…A mixture of freezing rain and snow is likely for much of southern New England late Wednesday into early Thursday…” Oh terrific, I just love freezing rain. I want to be just like North Carolina.

Soup = very very good. I did an excellent job, thank you. Had it tonight with carrots and elbow macaroni. I’m very full right now. Part of me can’t help but think that I could have just paid 99 cents and cracked open a can, but then I would have risked losing a finger.

The tree smell is now stronger than the soup smell, which makes me happy. See me smiling?