cherokerain brought me a pretty new blue plastic sled (we'd left the other one behind when we moved), but she won't sled, on account of having busted her head sledding as a kid. I mean really, actually busted, as in broken skull bones. But then ursuscelticus came over, and the Eyas said there was a hill at the community center where he goes for gaming, and so off we went ( Read more... )

Yesterday I had the day off, and though it would be a good plan to go get groceries for turkey-day stuff. Even though t was snowing. It was really just a little snow, not more than a couple inches. You could still see the grass poking up through it. The roads hadn't been plowed, but they really weren't bad even so; it was just a little snow, and I ( Read more... )

The Eyas's school collapsed (presumably under the weight of the snow on the roof). We were driving by, and the news vans and everything are out there. The word is, no one was in the part of the building that went down, and everyone in the school is accounted for. Thanks the gods it was a weekend. Not that they've had school for more than a day or ( Read more... )

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We finally got real, actual snow; enough to sled in, and it's perfect packing snow. The Eyas and I went out (actually, I drug him out from in front of the comptuer; he'd have just *sat* there all day ( Read more... )

It's *snowing*! Big, fluffly flakes of it, drifting down from a bright, white sky and dusting the ground. Not enough, yet, to close the schools (and hell itself must freeze over before Tech closes), but enough to feel like it's properly winter, and put me in mind of sledding ( Read more... )