"Snoverkill"

Oh, that's great!!

The name, I mean... not the need for it.

It's snowing here, too. Little flakes, fast flakes. Just measured the snow on the patio table so I can figure out how much more snow today and tomorrow bring. (Current measurement is 21.5".)

I was out for a bit this afternoon; took the lull between the flakes to visit my mother (in a nursing home), look for D cells (none anywhere), get onions (SuperFresh comes through! I hate that store, but do admire their ability to be so well-stocked), yell at someone parked in a firelane (as if there's enough room in the snow-mounded parking lot for that yutz to be there), and get Q-Tips. You know, the essentials.

(I got chocolate yesterday....)

Before that, I dug out a path to my shed to get the camping lantern (which requires D cells), a flashlight (which requires one of those big, honkin' rectangular batteries which aren't sold anywhere, apparently), a platform bird feeder, and another shovel, as the handle broke on one I was using yesterday -- snapped right in half. Also dug out my side door, so I can use that until it's snowed in again, and thought about bringing in one of the sleeping bags but didn't.