Well its been just over a year since my last post. It's not like I haven't been collecting experiences to share, I just haven't found the time to share them. Maybe this year I'll make time to keep blogging.
I'm starting off this year with the news for January 2011. That would be snow, lot's of it here on the Eastern shoreline. Its a record snowfall here in CT for January. And we are 25" shy of passing the record for snow for the year!
Check out what greeted us this morning as my husband ventured out to try and make it to work this morning.
This is at least our 5 snow storm. They started just after Christmas 2010. We had to take our son back to his home in Brooklyn but the weather was predicted to be blizzard conditions...so we waited. We didn't have much to deliver to his 4th floor walk-up, but the streets were narrowed down by mounds of snow on each side and we had to double-park for a while to unload. Since then its been at least a storm a week. We have piles of 4 feet of snow or more on the side of roads and in our driveway. Been burning wood in the fireplace every evening.
This takes me back to my childhood in the midwest, Wisconsin to be exact. As an elementary school kid I loved playing in the snow. The kids in the subdivision built forts out of snow and had snowball wars. I have different classifications for all the different types of snow: sledding snow, fort snow, and several kinds of slushy snow. The puddles we had to jump over full of slush were amazing! You could stay outside for hours in the snow as a kid
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Well I have to start back to work at the university next week. Classes just started (or tried to start-the university closed today for snow) this week and I start teaching next week. Wouldn't you know the weather predicts a storm for Tuesday, just in time for my first class.Mayor Bloomberg was on television this morning fielding more than a few questions from reporters wondering how he would view the Groundhog's prediction on winter's duration this year. Bloomberg intimated that he could use all the help he could get...even from a Groundhog!
