Watching the Weather

When you travel in winter months, and especially if you live in the Northeast, you watch the weather forecast like a hawk.  Multiply that with extra stress when the travel plans are for holiday travel.  I refuse to mess with it for Thanksgiving, which is just one day plus football, crammed into a narrow window [...]

How Did That Scone Get Into My Kitchen?

There are blueberry scones in the kitchen. I don’t know how they got there, although obviously I picked them up myself and put them in the shopping cart and then unloaded them in the kitchen.
It was that, “there’s a storm coming and we need to buy weird things because we don’t know when we [...]

In Between Time

The calm before a storm is eerie. You can feel it in the air, the thickening that tells you weather is coming, and at this time of the year, that means snow, sleet and freezing rain in various combinations. People scurry around running errands but also stocking up on food and supplies just [...]

Please Let it Snow, Not Sleet

Winter Storm Alexander is upon us. I know, I never heard of naming a winter storm before either, but apparently one of the local stations thinks it’s a good idea, being the winter equivalent of hurricanes and all. I think it’s kind of dopey. What matters, though, isn’t the name but the [...]

Paying the Price for Shoveling

As I went to bed last night, my shoulder, side, and knees were beginning to be stiff from shoveling all the heavy wet slush/sleet/snow from the storm. My soaked clothes hung up in the bathroom, trying to dry out, making a little forest of wet fabric. The wet stuff outside had already solidified [...]

Splashing through the Slush

I was snuggled into my warm bed early this morning when the clock went off earlier than usual – and I opened one eye and remembered, “oh yeah, check for snow.” After listening to the weather reports last night, I had visions of shoveling and scraping before jumping into the shower.
But there was only [...]