Enough with the snow already

[SadieKate]

No, come to mine!

[Zen]

Still Life With Nutella

Carport




From the front porch-

[7rider]

Oh, for Pete's sake....this is getting re-donk-u-lous.
We lost power -- again -- at 4:00 until 6:30 p.m. I suppose I should be happy that it was ONLY for 2.5 hours....but geez. I'm a little tired of cooking dinner by candlelight. "Hmmm...is that pot simmering? I can't see." And worrying about how long it will take for the now cold fireplace to ramp back up with the heat output. I guess older, "established" neighborhoods with mature trees have their drawbacks around here. Above ground power lines and big trees means frequent power outages. I'm afraid to sign on to my email, as I'm sure the neighborhood listserv is humming with rants. Sent from Smartphones, of course.....cuz no one had power for the computers!

e.t.a. Oh...Fudge Stripe cookies dipped in peanut butter....post shoveling treat. Mmmmmmm.....

[Zen]

Don't you have a headlamp?

[7rider]

I do, actually, and that's what I ended up using to see if the pot was simmering. I found a flashlight shining directly in was obscured by steam!

[pfunk12]

I'm a little tired of cooking dinner by candlelight.

But it sounds so romantic! Okay, I'll stop.

Another day off tomorrow. The last day that I worked was last Thursday and I'm not due to go back until Tuesday. This is not the type of vacation that I would have planned.

[ny biker]

Harris Teeter is having a sale on nutella this week. Just sayin'.

[7rider]

But it sounds so romantic! Okay, I'll stop.

EATING dinner by candlelight: romantic
COOKING dinner by candlelight: not so much.

Another day off tomorrow. The last day that I worked was last Thursday and I'm not due to go back until Tuesday. This is not the type of vacation that I would have planned.

Same here - was sick on Friday - not confident we'll be there even this coming friday. And I'm on vay-cay next week.
I promised my boss a draft report before I left. I'll be working tomorrow, regardless. Assuming power stays on...cough, cough.

[pfunk12]

I promised my boss a draft report before I left. I'll be working tomorrow, regardless. Assuming power stays on...cough, cough.

I've been checking e-mail all week but there's not much going on because our primary partners are universities and they know that if they contact us, we will not respond.

[Zen]

I shoveled the carport once and it's covered again. Resistance is futile.

We have officially set the record for the most snowfall in one year.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitalweathergang/

Harris Teeter is having a sale on nutella this week. Just sayin'.

We don't have a Harris Teeter. I'll just have to pay full price. You stock up, though.

[Possegal]

One of the news weather guys said - don't even go out and shovel, don't bother until tomorrow, it will all be covered back up. I did shovel my walk, but you can barely tell.

[HillSlugger]

I've been checking e-mail all week but there's not much going on because our primary partners are universities and they know that if they contact us, we will not respond.

I've been doing as much work from home as I can (company policy: no work, no pay) but the people at the other end of my pipeline apparently are not on the job. I guess they will be busy when they get back.

[owlice]

I was trying to work today, and had at least a dozen power blips -- off, then back on. Kind of hard to stay connected when the router keeps rebooting, ya know?

Zen, great pics!

(It's the Nutella...)

pfunk, ah-HA! It was you! I knew someone was having fun over the weekend!

(Good job!! )

I went out to feed the ferals; only two showed up, Alger Hiss and Clipear, the tabby. The nameless black cat, constant companion of Alger Hiss, did not appear.

It was so bitter cold, and the cardbox boxes so snowy because of the drifting snow, and did I mention how cold it was with the wind whipping along?, that I just couldn't stand it. I cleaned one litter box completely (as in scrubbed out), put in what was left of my "spread on the sidewalk" litter, and put it in a different bathroom. Went outside and grabbed Clip, who is a pretty well socialized cat. He's now locked in a bathroom with the fresh litter pan, food, water, and an old flannel shirt.

I went out and tried to bring in Alger Hiss, which meant picking up the cardboard box he was in, but he clawed his way out before I even made it to the door. I feel awful and hope he came back to one of the boxes, that he's not so spooked he is going to forgo even that meager shelter.

I wanted to bring in all three cats. :-(

[7rider]

Oh...and we haven't gotten mail since Friday.
So much for "neither rain nor snow nor gloom of night will keep these couriers from their appointed rounds."
Huh.

[HillSlugger]

Oh...and we haven't gotten mail since Friday.
So much for "neither rain nor snow nor gloom of night will keep these couriers from their appointed rounds."
Huh.

From Wikipedia:

The United States Postal Service has no official creed or motto. Often falsely cited as such, "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds" is an inscription on the James Farley Post Office in New York City, derived from a quote from Herodotus' Histories (8.98), referring to the ancient courier service of the Persian Empire:

It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the road, each horse and man at the interval of a day’s journey; and these are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed. (trans. A.D. Godley 1924)