Snowy Saturday
We woke up to a blanket of snow over everything, to go with our snow and ice from yesterday. Mom and I got to have a nature chat, as she asked what the animal prints on the front stoop were. Well, the two long ones with the little circle in between, those are bunny. The spiky-looking ones? Those are likely possum. I didn't mention to her that the long, narrow trail behind the spiky prints likely was the possum's tail. She's freaked out enough as it is.
The world was beautiful this morning. Yesterday's ice made today's snow extra clingy. It was fun to spend part of the morning watching all the birds flying about, including this beautiful cardinal, with such a deep red it was almost purple in places. Reminded me of an Empire apple. Sometimes I miss the orchard.
I got to use two of our Snow Joe products. Once dad woke up--not until about 10 o'clock--we got outside and shoveled. He asked me to clean the cars off first and I used the snow broom. It's not my favorite. I'm used to a brush and it works better in some ways, though it was okay. It's kind of rubbery so it'll squeak at times. I thought to turn my car on to help clean the windows, and by the time dad had snowblowed most of the driveway and needed us to shuffle cars, my car was pretty clean. Hooray for heat warming everything up. I also used one of the shovels mom got to clean up the walkway. I'm used to our old blue metal shovel; the plastic one from mom just doesn't have the right heft and isn't that great for getting ice off the walk and the asphalt. Oh well. It was good enough. I have to remember not to overexert myself these days, anyway.
I'd wanted to shovel earlier in the day, as opposed to the afternoon, so I could shower after. It's been a few days. I'd also wanted to do a spa day with my feet since they're in rough shape right now, so they got smoothed a bit and lotioned up. Hopefully they won't catch on fabric for a while; they've been Velcro-esque as of late.
Earlier in the day, while waiting for dad to get up, I put away a few things in my room. I'd had some containers that needed to be dealt with; one was a box from a gift, one was my Christmas card container, and one was for my beads. I did whip up a bracelet before putting the last one away. I'm looking to change one set of bracelets from elastic, which is degrading and breaking, to memory wire, and I was hoping to get memory wire for Christmas; that didn't happen. I had just enough wire for one more bracelet so I did that before chucking the box back into the closet for now. It's nice to have my floor space back in that area. Too much clutter brings out my anxiety.
I figured I needed a quiet afternoon after shoveling, and I worked on uploading pictures. I now have them done through December 1st, at least with what I'd taken to that point. I suspect I took more that day. That was my first sick day, when I went and got tested the first time, and after that I'd set about reading through last year's journal entries and that took up much of my December. I'm kind of looking forward to being able to do other tasks. There's always something I want to do. I realized today that there are so many things in my mental queue that even if I died and got to spend the rest of eternity working on my projects, I'd still never finish them. That's just how I am. But it's always nice to check something off the list.
The world was beautiful this morning. Yesterday's ice made today's snow extra clingy. It was fun to spend part of the morning watching all the birds flying about, including this beautiful cardinal, with such a deep red it was almost purple in places. Reminded me of an Empire apple. Sometimes I miss the orchard.
I got to use two of our Snow Joe products. Once dad woke up--not until about 10 o'clock--we got outside and shoveled. He asked me to clean the cars off first and I used the snow broom. It's not my favorite. I'm used to a brush and it works better in some ways, though it was okay. It's kind of rubbery so it'll squeak at times. I thought to turn my car on to help clean the windows, and by the time dad had snowblowed most of the driveway and needed us to shuffle cars, my car was pretty clean. Hooray for heat warming everything up. I also used one of the shovels mom got to clean up the walkway. I'm used to our old blue metal shovel; the plastic one from mom just doesn't have the right heft and isn't that great for getting ice off the walk and the asphalt. Oh well. It was good enough. I have to remember not to overexert myself these days, anyway.
I'd wanted to shovel earlier in the day, as opposed to the afternoon, so I could shower after. It's been a few days. I'd also wanted to do a spa day with my feet since they're in rough shape right now, so they got smoothed a bit and lotioned up. Hopefully they won't catch on fabric for a while; they've been Velcro-esque as of late.
Earlier in the day, while waiting for dad to get up, I put away a few things in my room. I'd had some containers that needed to be dealt with; one was a box from a gift, one was my Christmas card container, and one was for my beads. I did whip up a bracelet before putting the last one away. I'm looking to change one set of bracelets from elastic, which is degrading and breaking, to memory wire, and I was hoping to get memory wire for Christmas; that didn't happen. I had just enough wire for one more bracelet so I did that before chucking the box back into the closet for now. It's nice to have my floor space back in that area. Too much clutter brings out my anxiety.
I figured I needed a quiet afternoon after shoveling, and I worked on uploading pictures. I now have them done through December 1st, at least with what I'd taken to that point. I suspect I took more that day. That was my first sick day, when I went and got tested the first time, and after that I'd set about reading through last year's journal entries and that took up much of my December. I'm kind of looking forward to being able to do other tasks. There's always something I want to do. I realized today that there are so many things in my mental queue that even if I died and got to spend the rest of eternity working on my projects, I'd still never finish them. That's just how I am. But it's always nice to check something off the list.