Month: December 2003

All the snow-storminess behind us, it’s business as usual. Man, I do hate driving when the stuff on the roads is melty and the sun is bright (explaining the melty) which completely and thoroughly blinds you. That gets old REALLY fast.

I mentioned at breakfast that I hope it warms up enough to melt the snow and Junior got a look of pure horror on his face. Oh, right. Kids like snow. Okay, for you, we can keep it until after Christmas. But December 26th, I expect to see bare green patches in the lawn.

Man, Blogger is down, so I’m forced to (HORRORS!) type in this entry by hand. I’ll try to remember to copy and paste it when blogger is back up, otherwise it will be lost forever. Well, not forever, but what do I look like, a machine? I’ve got a couple of pictures here for Anji. I’ll just link to them because they are a little on the large side 72k and 55k and I don’t want to for people to download them every day for the next week of so as they move slowly down in the page. So here is one of my cafe table and chair, and the other of a green plastic adarondack chair. In the corner of the 2nd one, you can see a little red disk swing from Junior’s set. Please note that the red disk is about 1-2 inches from the top of the snow. This is all from this weekend, we had green grass a couple of days ago.

Okay, since the snow did finally stop, I guess I need to go outside and deal with it.

Okay, I dealt with it. Hey, that was fun, nothing like a little wind to make blowing snow a challenge! And you know how I thrive on challenges. Okay, I’ve dealt with snow, done three loads of laundry…can I have some “me time” now?

Popped over to Yahoo to read the weather report and I got confused about how the discuss snow accumulations. Am I supposed to add the “today and tonight” amounts? Or is tonight just a sub-set of “today? This is a big deal – could be the difference between 14 and 21 inches of snow.

Here’s what they had.



Today: Snow…heavy at times. Cold. High near 25F. Winds NNE at 15 to 25 mph. Snow accumulating 6 to 10 inches.

Tomorrow: Periods of snow with gusty winds at times. Cold. High 29F. Winds NNW at 20 to 30 mph. Chance of snow 80%. Snow accumulating 2 to 4 inches.



Maybe I should just ask you all to lie to me if you think I’m supposed to add them together.

Okay, got enough coffee and half-and-half on hand. Resisted the urge to go to the grocery store (don’t know that they had any Spider Grapes left) and instead went to Office Max. Cause that’s the kind of gal I am. No, we hit a few of the stores in the strip mall, including TJ Maxx to try to get some birthday presents. It wasn’t the most successful shopping trip ever, but I got the COOLEST Christmas tablecloth for only $10. It looks like a hand-made quilt. If I think of it, I’ll take a picture later. After I clear the crap off the table so I can actually put it down. Got Maybe This Christmas spinning on the CD player. Best Christmas CD ever. The sequal CD, Maybe This Christmas, Too, is on order from Amazon. I haven’t expanded my Xmas music collection very much this year. I replaced one cassette with a CD, but that doesn’t count. This is the first Xmas music purchase. Shame on me.

Now I may go outside and remove the first two inches of snow. Wish me luck.

That’s what I’ll be listening to over the weekend. We’re expecting a nor’easter over the weekend, which is nice timing in one way, and bad in another. Bad because I have shopping to do, a birthday party my son at the bowling alley, and my mom’s birthday, all this weekend.

Plus this means I’m going to have to shovel. So I have THAT going for me too. My dad gave my snowblower a tuneup (which mostly consisted of removing the field mice and nest from the engine, but I assume there was also an oil change. I should call and ask if he left gas in it. Now that I use an electric lawn mower, I don’t really have need for storing gas all summer. Hey dad, if you read this before I call you, drop me a line or call me, okay?

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Oh, and welcome to all the people who stopped by after reading the new Barbie article. Don’t forget to come by often, y’hear?