Snow, please

So far this winter we haven't had any significant snow. All of our winter storms have been sleet/freezing rain. Tonight we are supposed to get 3 to 5 inches of snow. The Wife is quite annoyed to be in the hospital (where they won't get much snow) for this event. I have to fire up the snow blower this afternoon as it hasn't been started in months. I'm looking forward to some snow. Of course, if it sticks around and is a sloppy mess for a week I'll change my tune but right now I'm looking forward to it. I was supposed to be travelling to Boston tomorrow for a client meeting on Tuesday but I cancelled the trip because of The Wife's hospitalization (mostly because they are planning to place a Hickman catheter in her chest tomorrow). This storm is going to affect New England more than PA so my colleague who is still planning to go to Boston may have a rough trip (she has a business travel curse I think.)

SNOW DAY

Finally, it snowed. But it is a really odd snow. More like little balls of ice. Slippery as pig shit. My office is closed but I still have to work (read I don't have the excuse of having children home from school to look after and I can't even say I was looking after the dog as she has put herself to bed in her crate.) The forecast says this precipitation should clear out around noon and then I'll have to go dig us out. I'm not sure the snow blower is going to work with this stuff but I'll give it the old college try (any excuse to play with the snow blower.) It is pretty (and quiet - no traffic, no kids playing outside - too cold). The best thing is that even though they are calling it an ice storm it is too cold to rain so trees, power lines, etc aren't getting covered in ice and crashing down. I'm taking advantage of the fact that we do have power and I've fired up the bread machine. Just a boxed mix but soon the house will smell wonderful and there will be fresh bread for a late lunch with The Wife on Valentine's Day.

SNOW, DAMMIT

I want it to snow. I want it to snow a foot. I'm not exactly sure why I want it to snow a lot because I'll just have to shovel (oh wait, I'll get to play with the snow blower.) They are predicting that a winter storm will affect where I live. Unfortunately, the forecast has changed from "lots-n-lots of snow" to "snow followed by a crapload of sleet-n-other frozen shit." UGH.

BRRRRRRR!

It was 9 degrees at my house this morning. Even the dog thought it was cold. This is booger-freezing cold. Fortunately it will be warmer this weekend. I did see something rather stupid on weather.com today. It said today's low would be 18 degrees when it was reporting a current temperature of 11. D'OH!