So here we are in the second day of this winter storm. The second day of !NO SCHOOL! as my kids will say with frequency! Here are some pictures from yesterday: These were taken maybe around noon or so? Quite a bit of snow, especially since it has never really stopped snowing since it started. I cleared a good eight to ten inches off the Pathfinder before taking Spencer to his cello lesson around 1pm. I also cleared the driveway at the same time. It’s probably got at least that much snow on it now (the next day at about the same time of day). Here’s some pictures I just took: You can see the snow from the window boxes outside the windows piled up above the level of the windows (our sliding glass door is snowed in about ten inches to a foot) and Tom rescued the tree last night from all the snow on its branches so...
So, everyone knows I am a bookworm nerd. I’ve been trying to read books that I actually own (as opposed to getting them from the library) because I’m trying to slow down my reading pace and actually get something done around my house. It was working until I started reading a couple of Sandra Dallas books that I wanted to review from my LibraryThing account. I read the first (Buster Midnight’s Cafe) which I quite enjoyed. Then I read the second (The Diary of Mattie Spenser) which was so good. I was quite enjoying myself. Then I picked up the third (Tallgrass). All of sudden there were these names showing up from the first two books – just brief references, but still … So I got curious. I read Alice Tulips – there were references to Mattie Spenser. I skimmed The Chili Queen – Mattie...
Here’s what we woke up to this morning… I guess winter is making an early appearance. Good thing I cleaned out half the garage – no scraping snow & ice off my car now!! Read More →
Slow to get them posted, but reviews from books read in Sept are now posted. I should really do Oct too while I’m at it … Read More →
Well – Tom is going back to work on Monday. He’s got a six-month contract with IBM in Boulder. Here’s hoping the work is interesting and the commute isn’t too heinous! Since he was offered the job, Tom has done the following: Helped his mom clear the barn behind her house. This involved hiring a roll-away dumpster and then proceeding to fill it with a life-time’s worth of stuff that had outlived its usefulness. Of course, there was a fair bit of sorting to do – some of the stuff was still wanted. Tom came back home with a stiff shoulder from all the work! He also came home with some mementos and a feeling of a job completed. Remodeled Spencer’s bed to accommodate a full-size mattress. For those of you who are acquainted with Spencer’s bedroom, you may now be asking “how exactly...