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Snow for Valentine's Day
Happy Valentine's day from the snowy Midwest! Our banner by the front step looks bright in the snow but is frozen stiff. Kind of like the rest of the landscape as the wind chill drops to single digits. We had rain, followed by sleet, followed by snow. It looks like we won't get much more than 3 inches of snow, but the radio waves are full of school and business closings, and notices of multiple-car crashes and jacknifed trucks all over the Interstate Highway system. It's always been a mystery to me why St. Louis drivers cannot remember how to drive on ice and snow from one year to the next, but it's pretty much the case around here.
This is only Norm's second foray out to scoop snow today. He went out just as the rain changed over to snow to get the mush off of the driveway and sidewalks while it was still warm enough to move it. It's not supposed to get above freezing here again until Saturday, they say! Our new rainbow spinner was really spinning in the wind. We are looking after our neighbor's house (her enclosed porch in the background) as well as ours while she is on a trip.
Doug says that Norm looks good in cold weather gear such as stocking caps, so this photo is for him. The leather jacket might look familiar, too. We are thinking good thoughts for everyone, but especially three of Norm's brothers--Harold is home from a hospital stay in Denver, Larry is recuperating from a fall on the ice in Colby and Don is contemplating surgery on a shoulder damaged when, by his own account, he tried to take up ice skating lessons in a Garden City alley. Judi's cousin Mike is another victim of ice follies and he is going to have shoulder surgery next month, too. Memo to the rest of the family: I'm trying to keep an eye on Norm but you can see for yourselves--he has this obsession about clearing snow.
Happy Valentine's day from the snowy Midwest! Our banner by the front step looks bright in the snow but is frozen stiff. Kind of like the rest of the landscape as the wind chill drops to single digits. We had rain, followed by sleet, followed by snow. It looks like we won't get much more than 3 inches of snow, but the radio waves are full of school and business closings, and notices of multiple-car crashes and jacknifed trucks all over the Interstate Highway system. It's always been a mystery to me why St. Louis drivers cannot remember how to drive on ice and snow from one year to the next, but it's pretty much the case around here.
This is only Norm's second foray out to scoop snow today. He went out just as the rain changed over to snow to get the mush off of the driveway and sidewalks while it was still warm enough to move it. It's not supposed to get above freezing here again until Saturday, they say! Our new rainbow spinner was really spinning in the wind. We are looking after our neighbor's house (her enclosed porch in the background) as well as ours while she is on a trip.
Doug says that Norm looks good in cold weather gear such as stocking caps, so this photo is for him. The leather jacket might look familiar, too. We are thinking good thoughts for everyone, but especially three of Norm's brothers--Harold is home from a hospital stay in Denver, Larry is recuperating from a fall on the ice in Colby and Don is contemplating surgery on a shoulder damaged when, by his own account, he tried to take up ice skating lessons in a Garden City alley. Judi's cousin Mike is another victim of ice follies and he is going to have shoulder surgery next month, too. Memo to the rest of the family: I'm trying to keep an eye on Norm but you can see for yourselves--he has this obsession about clearing snow.
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