Frosting for the frosting.

[rootofnewt]

We're getting more snow today. Twenty to twenty-eight inches are possible, they say. We had a foot total in separate snowfalls over the last week. I love snow. Yes, I ache more when the weather changes. Yes, shoveling affects my asthma and chronic pain. But I love it. I love the winter, I love the blanket covering everything, I love going for urban treks in the days after, when the neighbors come out rubbing their eyes and start helping to shovel each other out.

Sadly, explodingcat and I are both sick with the nasty upper respiratory infection Ronan shared with us. He's improving--still has a bit of a cough and taking naps--but we're in the thick of it.

I hope it passes soon so that we can take advantage of the snowfall and take Ronan sledding somewhere other than our own backyard hill. Otherwise, we're just going to stay inside and stay cozy. The manbeast is working today (he gets more rest that way), but that just means he's sitting in another room.


And I'm quite thankful that I don't have to deal with pollen on top of the snow. The eastern red cedar/juniper is usually spewing forth its sticky seed by now, but the trees are either dormant or the snow is holding it all down. So I'm a bit irritated that I'm sick right now, but let's be honest . . . if we were having an early spring, I'd already be in the throes of my spring through late fall/early winter muck. At least this is just some random bug.

Off to fix another cup of tea.

Comments

[twostepsfwd.livejournal.com]

28 inches - that is a shitload of snow. wow. i can't remember seeing that much snow since i was a teenager ( though to be fair i spent many of the intervening years in sunny CA). i am so glad i'm not on my way to DC right now. among other things, there was a bomb scare on the bus that i was supposed to be on (my friend was on it and called to tell me) so it was delayed.

[mmymoon.livejournal.com]

I think I'd share some of your cavalier attitude -- as much as I loathe snow -- if Cory worked from home like Tom does. It IS very snuggly to have the whole family at home (even sick) while the world goes and rots outside.

Snow, for me, means worrying... or just not having him here. He's been really cautious lately since he slid off the right during the first storm, so he's been staying with closer friends. Tonight, since it's going to be so bad, the postal bosses gave him clearance to actually CAMP OUT in the P.O. He took his sleeping bag and a book...

(I packed him a bunch of lunches and dinners and snacks and wrote his name on his undies. Hahahah! As close as I'm getting to sending someone away to camp!)


I have my doggies and lots of Discworld... and coffee, although just drip and instant. I REALLY should've gotten someone to get the espresso machine out of the shed for me. (Or maybe not, since I can't really GO anywhere/DO anything. But I could SIT HERE really happily! ;)