Santa Brings More Whiteness & a Big Box

Unbelievably, it's still snowing here. My friend Mike B, whom I went to school with from 3rd grade to 8th grade and lives a few blocks away, agreed with me that this is the most consecutive days of snowfall and snowy roadways that we've ever seen here.

It's supposed to warm up a little bit, but tonight and tomorrow night are still supposed to be below freezing. The way it looks now, I'm thinking the driving conditions will still be a little tricky for the next couple days, and walking around is going to be real yucky.

I had to go out to my car late last night to get some stocking stuffers and had to walk on top of about 6 inches of rain saturated sloppy snow, that sometimes held, and sometimes collapsed under my weight. Yuuuuk.

But the good news is that Santa dropped off a huge box in the basement last night. I know there's packaging fluff and air around whatever's in there, but it's still pretty darn big. His elves are coming tomorrow morning to put what's inside onto the wall where the old TV can be seen in this photo. So even though it'll be yuuky snowy outside, we'll probably be in the basement for the time being.
Heather's supposed to be working from home tomorrow too - doesn't have the day off like me....it's sure to be a productive day. ;-)

Merry Christmas to all of you citizens and citizens-elect out there; and I hope the New Year brings you much peace, happiness, prosperity, love, and whatever it is your heart desires.

Thicker Blanket

About eight inches total fell last night, and more is still falling right now on Sunday evening. Kian was doing his snowboard school clinics yesterday at the pass, and opted to stay the night up there thinking we'd be able to pick him up sometime today. Unfortunately, with all of last night's snowfall, the DOT closed the pass in both directions early in the morning, and he was ostensibly stuck up there, maybe for days! He was not happy, insisting it was certainly worth risking vehicular wreckage and personal injury to try and get him home tonight.

Fortunately, the ski clinic teachers all needed to come back into Seattle tonight, and the DOT opened the pass just long enough for Kian and his buddies to get back into town tonight, and we picked them up at Issaquah late afternoon.

Meanwhile, four inches is supposed to accumulate by morning, and temperatures will be in the upper 20's overnight. Should be fun driving into work tomorrow morning. Maybe.

White Blanket In Wedgwood

Woke up to partly cloudy skies this morning, after an inch thick blanket fell overnight, so I had to get out into the 25 degree air to see how well the insulation is working. Neighbor Brandon was out already with his almost year old daughter Zoe as the sun peeked out over the top of the unknown neighbor's house.

Brandon had new attic insulation blown in a few weeks ago, so he had to check out how well it was doing too - looks like it's doing about as well as ours, though the deep texture of our roof certainly shows up more.

I think Richard and Sarah haven't insulated yet, and their bedroom is at the front right of the house, judging from the amount of missing snow from that part of the roof. Of course, that could also be just from the overhanging branch. too.

Here's our house - nice coating of snow at 8:45 in the morning still. Only a couple more weeks until the days start getting longer again! Makes you long for a meaningful pagan holiday, huh?

It Is Cozy

The teapot is fabulous- as Heather says, it gets a real good workout constantly. Coffee, tea, more coffee, we LOVE IT! Thanks so much - (you know who you are).

Pagan solstice holiday tree was erected and trimmed with the boyz last week - moved the kitty chair to the basement, leaving just the one up here that I get to fight over with Wookie now for napping rights.

Congratulations to Howard Bra'ai Shapiro on getting his Green Card!!!! Wish we could go to Santa Fe to celebrate with he and Lori. In the meantime, it's supposed to get into the 20's tonight, a high of 30 tomorrow, and the snow falling tonight will likely not melt, so when it gets to 18 degrees tomorrow night it'll make for fun driving into work on Monday. Oy!

Two Weeks Later.....

Happy Holidays!

That's three parties in three weeks. Today, Heather's Whidbey Island Book Club, three members anyway, came down for yummy chicken and goodies, while I did the WAC and visited with buddy Jonathan.

Little bit of snow tonight- turned up the radiant heat upstairs to 68 degrees - it's nice. Spending the evening reading in the living room listening to swing music on NPR. Very domestic, huh?

Nice tablecloth, too, eh? The florals are cotoneaster and rosemary from the backyard. That hangy-down glowing thing below the hatbox is reflection of the living room lamp.