The thermometer outside my window says it's ten degrees, and it's going to get colder. It will be very cold for a few days, but that isn't the main event: the very big storm that's crossing the country will bring us a foot of snow, maybe a foot-and-a-half, tomorrow and Monday.
Tuesday evening I started to get that feeling of a cold coming on; it progressed, and I ended up missing a day of work. Today, I got caught up a little with some of the food that's been waiting in the fridge: I cooked a chicken for tomorrow's dinner, a meatloaf for the freezer, a small batch of granola and some energy bites for myself.
The furnace has been going on all day. A foot of snow is not a huge amount - the hullabaloo is mainly over two things: the size of the storm, which is big enough to cover much of this large nation, and the ice that so many in the south will get. That will cause problems, if it hasn't already. I don't think we're going to get any.
I took so many pretty pictures of the last snowfall; I wonder how long it will take for my enthusiasm to wane, if it ends up a snowy winter?
Yeah I feel that the reaction to this storm is a bit overblown! But I'm also very blessed with my home to be warm in!
ReplyDeleteI do love the snow! We don't get as much as we used to get, as you know but this winter we have had a little which lasted for a few days. I love walking in snow but hate having to walk on ice and our snow almost always turns to ice. The temperature goes up enough to melt it a little and then it freezes again - ugh! I don't mind driving in a few inches of snow but anything deeper I get scared in case I'm stranded somewhere. I have to pretend to be very grown up and join in with everyone saying that it will be good when it's gone.
ReplyDeleteIt is nervewracking to be traveling along in it. It started about an hour before Mass and was already covering the ground when we got out. We avoided hilly areas, and went along a level road, but even so, saw a car ahead of us sliding - only the main roads had been plowed.
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