School was canceled before 5 a.m. which meant that George had the day off. I actually had to work overtime, so I was up and out the door early despite the weather.
The snow didn’t amount to much during the day, we maybe had four inches by the time I returned home. More is on the way tonight, but thankfully we aren’t having the fierce winds that were expected!
We have almost no snow on the ground at this point. Temperatures above freezing have melted most of it in the last few days, but now a blizzard is approaching, or so we think. The prediction is for 10 – 12 inches of snow and heavy winds between midnight tonight and daybreak on Friday.
We seem to live along an imaginary line which often separates us from other regions in the state, so that Binghamton can be buried in snow, and we hardly have any. It will be interesting to see how this storm plays out.
We went up to see Dad and Evelyn today. It was good to get out and away from home to relieve the Cabin Fever that comes with mid-winter.
When we arrived we found that Dad had been baking up a storm.
A lemon meringue pie was expected, but brownies and chocolate chip cookies were in the works too!
Thank goodness they were expecting more company over the weekend. It gave us a good reason to resist the temptation to bring some home. Everything was way too good!
I had an appointment in Watkins Glen this morning, so I left the house a little early. I wanted to drive up to the lake to see it in the snow and sunshine.
It brightened my day, but made it so difficult to walk into my work two hours later.
The past few weeks I have felt in kind of a rut. It seems that my days cycle through the prep for work, my eight hour workday, then home to cook and clean and do it all over again. On the weekends I seem to play catch-up, and nothing seems out of the ordinary or worth blogging about.
I’ve kept watch out the window, but even the birds are few at my feeders this winter. The ones that do come, don’t stay long.
I am ready for this winter, and my slump, to end!
George and I flew to Finland in June of 1999. Morgan had spent ten months there as a foreign exchange student, and we went over to spend some of her last days with her. We had a wonderful ten days full of new people, experiences, and a language that was fascinating to hear, but impossible to pick up on in a short time. We landed in Helsinki, spent a couple of days there, then took the train northward over a period of three days to arrive in northern Finland where Morgan had called home for nearly a year. Her last host family had invited us to stay with them at their home in the country.
We arrived at Midsummer, which is a holiday of sorts. After the long darkness of winter, they were enjoying twenty-four hours of daylight. We picnicked on grilled reindeer sausage, learned how to properly participate in sauna, and visited in the backyard till we were exhausted. There was never any clue from the sky that it was time to retire for the evening.
They offered us this cute little guest house for sleeping. Going to bed at midnight, I remember we covered the windows with dark clothes from our suitcase to be able to sleep. Having the sun shining through the night was very disorienting!
Here the Finnish flag is being raised in the back yard to celebrate the longest day of the year.
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