Over the weekend, mom had been looking at the calendar of events at the old people's home and saw that a trip to the casino was on tap for this week. You know grandma, she's up for that. Mom made sure she was signed up for it ( Read more... )

We're not the only ones experiencing extreme weather. The entirety of the country is cold and/or snowy, including the Gulf Coast ( Read more... )

Yesterday was very windy, to where when people would open the door at my job, it would stay open for a few seconds because gusts would hold it open. Snow was predicted, but whenever people would come in, they'd say there were only a few flakes and otherwise it wasn't doing anything ( Read more... )

We are officially into the season of spring. It snowed for much of the day. It figures. We've had such a backward winter, and Chicago springs are notorious for having winter bleed into them for a while, but given how warm it's been, we'd be forgiven for thinking perhaps the snow would be but a memory. On the news just now, they said the last snow ( Read more... )

This has been a weird winter, where we had about two weeks of brutal weather and then it's been above normal. We had temperatures in the 50s this week, we're supposed to get into the 60s on Monday and Tuesday--yet today, it is snowing outside. It was raining while I was at work and then it turned chunky on my ride home. By the time dad and I went ( Read more... )

Day 2 of getting up and shoveling before breakfast. It had snowed again last night, to where I could have shoveled after dinner--or, really, right when I'd gotten home--but it was supposed to snow overnight so it made sense to wait. So, at 8 AM, dad and I were out there to find the driveway...again. It took us about 10 minutes just to clean off our ( Read more... )

Perhaps, somehow, Chicagoland has been hiding (in plain sight, I suppose), and that is why it took until January for winter to find us. I certainly wasn't seeking it out, and given our adventures on Christmas Eve, having 50s for the holiday was not so bad. But it is weird to endure--if one should phrase it that way--a winter in this area sans cold ( Read more... )

It's officially winter. It took until the 6th of January for it to arrive. My father hasn't even pulled out the snowblower yet, because it's been so warm and so...liquid. Yes, it snowed back on Halloween, but it's barely done anything since then ( Read more... )

The front that brought us the snow on Sunday also ushered in chilly temps. It was in the teens when I came home from band last night. I made the choice, first time all season, to wear long underwear; I didn't regret it. I will also wear them today, since not only is it supposed to be chilly when I come home again tonight, but we have single digits ( Read more... )

The change of seasons is always a time of uncertainty as to what you're going to get. We have a fair amount of trees that are still green or only just changing colors, yet we had measurable snow on Tuesday, to where we woke up yesterday morning to a coating of snow on the lawns and roofs. The Aurora airport, a notorious cold spot, got down to 19F. ( Read more... )