Today's story starts off with shoveling yesterday. I like a clean driveway. I'm usually out there scraping away to get that sucker as snow-free as possible. However, once dad called it quits, I called it as well. I know I shouldn't really be exerting myself right about now. Okay, we'll call it good enough and leave it be ( Read more... )

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 ( Read more... )

We finally got our first decent snowfall yesterday. It was starting as I left work, and was barely snowing--I had to stop and ask myself, did I just see something white fly past me? By the time I got home, it had snowed enough that visibility had diminished and the snow was starting to accumulate on the roadway. Not long after I got home, you ( Read more... )

The postman came by our house three times yesterday. Three. This is what happens when your mother likes to buy off the TV ( Read more... )

Last week, the weather was cruddy. It worked out that we had nothing going on, save for taking down the decorations. To wit, when the teenage boy came to our door last Saturday evening to inquire about shoveling our driveway, he would have seen several large Rubbermaid totes that I'd filled that afternoon--that would be part of the reason our ( Read more... )

We got snow yesterday, for the first time this year (at least measurably). We really haven't had snow since the Monday after Thanksgiving, where my commute was horrible and I'd rather not deal with that again anytime soon. I know Laura and my cousin both lost power for a while, and they're miles apart from each other, so that was an equal- ( Read more... )

Today was day nine in a row of snow. Oy. This should be the last of it, at least for a few days, but having to deal with it is fatiguing. Only today did I do any shoveling; mostly I've just had to drive through it, but that's certainly not any fun. It's been just enough for dad to snowblow, and since he's home now, he's just taken care of it. ( Read more... )

Because if February were a long month, today would be its final day. And it seemed like a continuation of our most recent February ( Read more... )

Mom called just before 8 to give us an update. It's been quite a day for her family. Because of all the snow and having a garage off an alley, my mom's older brother almost didn't make it to my grandfather's; he was supposed to spend the first night with him. However, his roommate couldn't get out of her garage. If grandma would come get him, ( Read more... )

Bad news: It snowed. AGAIN. We got probably about 5 ( Read more... )