The snow started yesterday evening, it continues today, mixed with freezing rain and ice pellets. We had an appointment today, saw the weather report yesterday, cancelled, and setup another appointment with hopefully better weather. We aren’t venturing off the property today.
Attila is busy, shovelling snow, and ice, and working on his pantry project in the basement. He is working on the wall first, which is a big job because all the things stored in that area have to be moved out of the way.
While Attila works on the snow and the wall, I am busy in the kitchen, baking bread and muffins, and making salad dressing.
And that is how we spend a “snow day” here at Mist Cottage.
The bread will need to be sliced when it cools, and the muffins stored by twos in plastic milk bags, to keep in the freezer for my breakfasts.
Worldly
Weather
1°C
Date: 11:00 AM EST Thursday 13 February 2025
Condition: Light Drizzle
Pressure: 100.3 kPa
Tendency: Falling
Temperature: 0.7°C
Dew point: 0.7°C
Humidity: 100%
Wind: S 21 km/h
Visibility: 3 km
Quote
“There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.”
Rebecca West
1892 – 1983
This venue has its limitations for interacting with friends and loved ones. I do a lot of the “talking”, and listen whenever I can, and as best I can. It isn’t the same as face-to-face, but it has allowed the opportunity to meet some lovely people that I would not otherwise have met!
Stay warm and cozy! I’m glad to have met you and followed your stories over the years. Has it been twenty years already?
Odd! The entry of the 14th shows as being before the one of the 13th.
Joan, not sure what the date thing is about, time zones perhaps?
We are warm and comfortable so far, more storms on the way right into next week. But tomorrow is supposed to be nice, so we will be getting some running around done while the roads are good. It is so wonderful to be retired and only venture forth when the weather and roads are good!
October 1999 was my first journal entry, so it has been just over 25 years that my scribblings have gone into the ether. So glad to have met you! I enjoyed your blog. Blogging was such an adventure at the beginning, there weren’t that many of us, we started before blogging software was even thought of. How times have changed!
I’m so happy I met you online, Maggie, and the others here. In the insanity of the internet, it’s nice to have a place for civilized, sane conversations. Thank you.
Sandy, it is wonderful to have met you too! I really enjoy, and have affection for, you and the other people who interact here. I am so very glad I did not get involved with the mainstream social media, such as becoming a youtube creator, where the lure of $$ lurks ominously. My blog costs me a little bit to keep going, literally a little bit, but what I get out of it is valuable beyond measure.
We were able to get out grocery shopping on Thursday, just as everything was winding down. OMG we’ve got a lot of snow! We’ve got about a foot and a half just on the ground and the snow from the driveway plus blowing snow is piled up taller than me!
I’m so glad I insisted on getting DH a small snowblower a few years ago, even though we could barely afford it. There’s no way anyone could stay healthy hand shoveling this much snow.
Teri, yikes, that is a lot of snow! You must be experiencing the lake effect when the when the wind from the west picks up moisture over the great lakes. We have been lucky so far this winter, even the storms aren’t that bad, compared to areas where the lake effect is relevant. Thank goodness for the snow blower!
I can’t shovel snow anymore, or do any activity like it, not even a little bit, so lucky that Attila can still do it. I suppose we could find a service to dig us out if we both end up having limitations due to health, but so far so good, and since the snow here has not yet been intense as it is where you live, Attila is enjoying the snow shovelling.