Frosting for the frosting.

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.

Fire on the walls

Fire on the walls
Originally uploaded by jocelyndale

I thought I'd share a picture of some of the flames. This is just a small portion of one of the more restrained sets of flames. And they're partially covered by the construction paper we taped up earlier (snowed in).