Well, we got like another foot of snow over night. We're officially snowed-in and our trip to California is canceled. Bummer. We came to the conclusion that we'd rather be stranded at home than somewhere in the Siskiyous - especially with Austin and the pug aboard. We had baked about 500 cookies to take with us. Hope the neighbors like gingerbread.It's interesting how a relatively little thing like bad weather makes the world suddenly much smaller. We'll make the rounds later today to deliver cookies and check on our neighbors - particularly the older ones who have a hard time getting out on a good day. We're fortunate to live in a neighborhood that was built before cars were common - where it's easy to know one's neighbors and have a sense of community.
For now, at least we have all of life's necessities: coffee, baked goods, Internet access... coffee...
The photo is of the BBQ grill. Hmmm... maybe we'll have a luau. Leis might be hard to come by, but we're pretty resourceful. To any of you living in places like, say, Boulder or Denver: yes, we are snow wimps. But then, this kind of snow doesn't happen very often here - not since the winter of 1949/50 anyway. If it keeps up, the snowfall record before that was in 1870-something.
Dammit - just as I went to publish this, a big branch broke off one of the (very) big trees and hit the house. Guess I had better go look...
Update: Some advice - If branches start breaking off a tree, don't go stand under the tree and look up like an idiot. Almost got smooshed by a second, much larger branch. Heard a loud CRACK! and ran for the porch. Boom/Crash/Cloud of snow, etc. Some Russian guy trudging by, pulling a sled with groceries on it, laughed and said, "Heh heh! You move just in time, no?" Um, yes, actually, but whatever. Thanks for your concern. Enough excitement for today. Back to hibernating.
Sorry you had to cancel your trip. It's COLD here but no precip. It definitely won't be a white Christmas in Oklahoma. The tree thing reminds me of how men here go outside when the tornado siren goes off. That siren means take cover, not let's go talk to the neighbors and wait for the tornado to suck you up!
ReplyDeleteMust be one of those guy things. Not enough genuine adversity in our lives so we go looking for it - consciously or not. Or maybe we're just dumb. Nah. Must be the first thing.
ReplyDeletePeh, you and your snow. It hasn't even snowed here in a few days, stop hogging all of it.
ReplyDeleteIt was muggy and 65 yesterday and 75 today in OKC! Go figure. I feel like I time traveled to some time in May. Disorienting.
ReplyDeleteI think the going outside to check the (potentially life threatening) hazardous weather might also be genetic, as well as gender bound. I distinctly remember Grandma yelling out the back door, "Don, get out from under that tree! Can't you look at the lightening storm from INSIDE the house?"
Perhaps it's part of Midwestern culture (if ever there was an oxymoron...). I don't notice as many folks running outside to experience bad weather for themselves 'round these parts. But then we don't have much weather worth looking at. I do miss the big open skies and the storms sometimes.
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