For those of you who don’t live on the East coast, you may not know, but we have been having a record-breaking snow in the Mid-Atlantic. DC has 30″, Baltimore 27″, Philly 26″–it has been simply incredible.
It started Friday about noon. It increased in intensity through the day and until mid-morning today, Saturday (2/6), when it finally began to lighten just a bit. It seems to have quit altogether now, and it’s 7pm.
As most of you know, I grew up in Wyoming, and as a child I learned all about being “snowed in.” We always considered it a luxury–you can’t get out, go anywhere, do anything, and no one can complain that you’re lazy. So you do anything you want–my favorite activity for being snowed in is always jigsaw puzzles. Completely unproductive, yet entertaining.
Of course you could knit, too. Which I am, in fact, doing with some Lang samples for the Spring & Summer season. We will be taking some of these yarns to Stitches South in Atlanta in April.
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February 6, 2010 at 9:09 pm
Cheryl
Laurie, I still have the fabulous pix of the young Greek god otherwise known as Dylan, digging out the last time this happened to you! Was he 12? 14? Stay warm. Hot toddies… xo Cheryl
February 6, 2010 at 9:53 pm
Evan
Wow! It’s even bigger than I’d imagined when you described it. Good thing you kept those skis in the basement after all.
How is Max handling it? I guess he can’t even tell the outside is there anymore…
February 6, 2010 at 9:57 pm
Amy Trippe Brophy
Send that snow north to British Columbia! We have daffodils coming up and cherry blossoms out on Vancouver Island! Where’s the friggin snow when we need it. The Olympic Committee is trucking snow in from interior mountains. But apparently Insbruck and Nagano had snow issues too. Mother Nature sure likes to play tricks…..
February 8, 2010 at 8:24 pm
Laurel
Max is not doing well. He definitely has the cat version of cabin fever!
JHU closed today, which is only the 3rd time in my last 10 years that this has happened. I’m pretty sure they will be open tomorrow (?) but there is a new storm on the way. Forecast is 10-20 inches of snow between Tuesday noon and Wednesday 5:00pm.
I’m tired of shoveling. Hmmph. 🙂