Looks like another Snow day. I’m sitting on the couch engaged in my usual morning routine of coffee and writing. Oh, there truly is nothing like that first sip of coffee, it’s like having the very first sip of your life every morning!
It’s cold, like it has been for most of this winter, 21 degrees. This past weekend was a tease with temps hitting 50 but for the most part this has been a cold and snowy winter. It’s one of those winters where there is no place left to put the snow and I am just tired of driving in, shoveling and blowing the stuff.
The news is on and of course the weather report is … more snow. Argh! All I want is warmer weather and to be out on my patio with the fire pit glowing. But right now it’s covered with 3 feet of snow (mental note to self: find a way to ‘winterize’ the patio this summer – whatever that means).
But in trying to keep a positive outlook I start thinking about other snowy mornings and how it could (always) be worse.
And just to prove a few of points to myself that, One, it can always be worse and Two, ‘worse’ can actually be fun, I found an email that I had sent to a friend one January morning in 2011, on a particularly snowy morning that turned into a major nor’easter. The cast of characters included Emma, my kitty and Rubi, my Lab.
It was a snowy beginning to a beautiful day …
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Thursday Morning. 1/27/11
Good Morning!
It’s been such a ‘busy’ morning I thought I would share.
My neighbor waited until 4:15 to start snow-blowing …
Yes it did wake me up but when I looked at the time, I thought ‘thank you’.
So of course I had to get up and look out the window … yikes! So much more than 6 inches?
I got back in bed … I’m not going anywhere, soon. Started to relax, close my eyes and think warm thoughts.
Emma decides to roll her ball (with bell) up and down the hallway (?) I laid there awhile, ball/bell stopped, I lifted my head and looked at the door, Emma is in the hallway – peering around the corner looking at me. She disappears and the ball starts rolling again. She reappears at the doorway. Is she trying to tell me something?
I hear a little burst of energy from the living room and Rubi comes busting in, very excited.
OK, time to get up and make the coffee; look out the window to make sure I really did see ALL that snow. Yup.
Get back into bed to check the news … Satellite Dish does not have a signal, hmmm. Get out of bed to check the Dish – cannot see the dish. As you would say “Oh Boy”. So I get dressed and head out to clear the dish … my snow-blowing neighbor is outside yelling at his wife – tensions are high in the neighborhood. He just cleared the driveway – she has to drive in this stuff!
The snow is almost waist deep as I clear all around the dish. Came back inside and we’re ‘looking for a signal’. I guess at this point I really did not need to watch the news to know there is a lot of snow out there.
Back in bed; I do not think I’m going into the office today, grateful that I have a choice.
In the end, I have to admit … it really is beautiful outside.
(19″ in Woodstock, 15″ Putnam)