Tag: snow day

Winter Storm

Like others in my friend’s list, we were part of the Winter Storm that swept quite an area of the US. Thankfully, since I’m a school teacher, I had yesterday and today off. And I had fun documenting the storm with photos. 🙂

Oh, if you haven’t already, be sure to check out my Valentine’s Day card. Linus and Lucy posed especially for it.

So, yesterday we had lots of snowing going on. I made chicken & rice soup for lunch, but since I put far too much rice in it, I wound up with very nice chicken & rice porridge. Yum! I spent the entire day indoors, except for a couple of minutes when I took some photos from my front porch. In the process of doing that, the kitties got out and Lucy hopped off the porch to investigate this “snow” thing better. I stepped down to coax her back up. And then proceeded to slip and fall onto the porch (into the thin layer of snow which had blown up that far). I now know why they call those things “slippers.” Heh. I’m pretty sure that Lucy was laughing as she hopped back inside the house.

The rest of the day was pretty uneventful. I finished watching season 3 of Open All Hours (and now must order season 4…) I played some City of Heroes. I had leftovers for supper (from Dinner & a Movie). It was a very nice day.

Today I’ve been watching Columbo and trying to get caught up with grading. I’m nearly done with the physics tests, but then I’ve got chemistry tests and physics quizzes to grade. (The lab reports are stacking up too, but they’re on the server at work, so I’ll do them when I’m back in the building.) The folks and I walked up to the Post Office today, so I took some photos along the way. I took a cute photo of them outside their house so dad could send to one of his friend’s in California who’s been complaining about the 60­°F temperatures they’ve been having. Heh. Also took a photo of a neighbor’s house who’s off in Florida for the winter. That way they can remember why they go to Florida every winter. 🙂

Anyhoo, here are some of the photos from Winter Storm 2007:


Here is a shot off the porch during the storm. It’s all misty looking due to all of the snowflakes falling.


This is a similar view after the storm was over.


Lucy went out again some this morning and plopped into the same spot as yesterday. A little more snow in that space than yesterday. Silly kitty.


Getting from my doorway to the street was something. Some of those footprints are DEEP. (Up to my knees in one of ’em!)


My house in all of its glory!


Awwwww, aren’t they cute?


The mound of snow after they plowed out the Post Office parking lot makes for a fun snow mountain for kids!


My street on the walk back.


Dad shoveling the walk… Actually, a neighbor had just plowed through with her snow blower (and it was a chore for her!) and dad’s just following up.


This is a neat icicle that always gets formed in that tree each year. Some years it’s been much bigger. But it’s always pretty.

I know some of you are probably tired of snow and/or photos of snow, but for those of you who aren’t, I hope you enjoyed my pictorial journal. 🙂

A bad time to get insomnia…

… as if there’s ever a good time to get insomnia.

After a late night (for a week night) I finally did fall asleep last night. Only to wake up at 4am. And I can’t sleep. The annoying this is that we’re in the middle of a winter storm (9-12″ of snow predicted for my area) and school is closed – SO I COULD HAVE SLEPT IN!

Gah! Insomnia, you do me wrong!

I’ve already read more from American Gods, watched the early morning news (they ONLY thing they’re talking about is the weather), and responded to some e-mails. I’m a little worried about my mom (who has to go to work in this proto-blizzard – the joys of working for a hospital) so until I find out if she got to work OK, then I probably won’t be able to sleep anyhoo. She’s driven in some of the worst weather Ohio’s had, so if anyone can get her safely to Troy, she can. Dad and I, being teachers, are not good “bad weather” drivers.

Hmmm, and I’m hungry, too. Thankfully, it’s nearly my normal Wake Up time, so I think my stomach will be able to handle food. 🙂

Well, at least I’ll enjoy watching the snow when it gets light out. 🙂

ETA: Mom got to work just fine, according to dad. Apparently it’s not the worst she’s driven in. 🙂 (Here’s hoping she makes it home OK too!)

Short Work Week

Well, turns out Monday wasn’t our only day off of the week. Thanks to more cold weather and later snow (which came Tuesday afternoon and stayed around til late Tuesday night) we wound up with Tuesday and Wednesday off as well. And I really enjoyed the days off.

After playing some City of Heroes on Monday, I actually went to the basement and stained my boards for my future bookshelves. I was quite pleased to finish that job. So yay for day off Monday!

Tuesday, the folks and I went to the grocery in the morning. I picked up some Chinese when we finished (seems silly, I know, to get take away just after you’ve bought lots of lovely food, but I wanted to eat as soon as I got home, not prepare something!) And as we headed home, the snow began. My goal for the day, then, became sitting, watching the snow, and reading. Rather than read in the reading room (where I really can’t see out of the window) I opted to read in my living room, where I have lots of windows to look out. I wound up reading The Wisdom of Big Bird from cover to cover. Yay! Thank you day off #2!

Wednesday morning I decided to walk in the snow to work. I spent 3 hours at work mostly doing webpage work. I am so behind at work I could have spent a week there and still not get caught up, but it was pleasant working without interruption for 3 hours on some stuff that had been needing done. Wednesday afternoon was spent playing. Yay for Wednesday!

Thursday had a 2 hour delay (which I always treat as a 1 hour delay to get some work done before school) and Friday had a guest speaker from ITT and then the county tech meeting, so this was a very nice week for Trina!

Today, I spent most of the time shellacking my boards for the bookshelves. It turns out one quart container of shellac was all I needed. Now I just need to coax dad here to build my bookshelves. 🙂 (He is coming tomorrow, as is mother, for Dinner and a Movie. I’ll be making lasagna roll ups (from Market Day) and showing Zathura.)

If we get no other days off this year, I’ll be just fine. I got what I wanted – real snow (it’s still out there and still very pretty) and some time off work. I think this was just the break I needed to get me to Spring Break. Heh.

What to do with a snow day…

  1. Sleep in

  2. Play City of Villains

  3. Watch season 2 of Bewitched

  4. Have lunch

  5. Watch that Xmas episode of Monk you keep missing (How did the USA Network know I was going to have a day off school today?)

  6. Finish Going Postal by Terry Pratchett while listening to Christmas music

  7. Have supper

  8. Play City of Villains – successfully doing the respec trial (yay!)

  9. Read LJ, write LJ, and chat on IRC while listening to Christmas music

  10. Continue rereading Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets before bed

  11. Sleep

I haven’t done the last two on the list yet, but I think the rest pretty much covers my day. Snow days are so much better than days off. I mean, you always plan stuff for your day off. But you’ve never got plans for a snow day, cuz you never know when/if you’ll get one.