frozen planet

It sure is cold and snowy.  Once again it is lightly snowing, late.  The day was filled with sunshine and icicles.  Did laundry, read, learned more capabilities of the iPhone, watched HGTV.  4WD, Dinner, coffee, and conversation tonight.  Thinking about Milwaukee a bit, planning a trip, Amtrak of course. 

feisty

The carpet was installed today.  One room 12 X 15.  It took about one hour to complete.  It is still snowing, I swear it's snowed every day since Winter arrived.  A couple of inches overnight and more predicted.  I had to shovel off the front porch since the installers were using the front door to bring in the padding and carpeting.  And the snow.  They did wipe off their shoes, and I followed with a towel, wiping down the hardwood floor after them.  Boris spent the time watching them work.  She is one feisty feline.  I expected her to stay in her cubby hole under the end table in the living room during all the noise and excitement, but no, she wanted to be where the action was.

curiosity

This is Rocco.  He lives up to the adage.  He has to be where the action is.  He has to know what is going on.  He can be a good cat, crawling up in your lap, wanting some attention; he can be a bad kitty too, chewing up the power cord to the iPhone.  I have been clearing out one of the bedrooms in preparation for having carpet laid and he is right there, supervising, checking everything out, making sure things are done to his liking.  Rocco isn't going to be happy tomorrow when the installation takes place, he's going to have to stay closed up in one of the other bedrooms for the duration.  It'll drive him crazy.

you have been warned

The lake effect snow warning continues until 4PM this afternoon.  Woke up this morning at an additional two inches of snow.  Yesterday had snow, just like the day before, and the day before . . . I think you get the picture.  Finally going to take down the decorations today, the tree is lit for one last day.  This evening going out for burgers and books.  I'll need books if I am going to be hibernating through winter and all these snow warnings.

newfangled gadgets

I got an iPhone for Christmas.  Well, a number of days after Christmas that is.  Always talking about getting one, should have gotten one when I upgraded phones last year.  So now I have a new toy to play with.  Seeing how it's been snowing and snowing and snowing and snowing (by the way, it is snowing now as I write this), I'll be playing quite a bit.

another day, another snow

Lake effect.  Shoveled the drive way early.  Snow was light and powdery.  The sun came out and it warmed up nicely, 15 degrees.  Debated on taking down the Christmas decorations, still undecided, the tree is lighted tonight.  Went out for pizza and a movie.  The Princess and the Frog is a great return to hand drawn animation.  Fun story, cute characters, lively music, enjoyed it very much. Playing on the Internet, more time on Facebook, and listening to German New Wave music, heading to bed in a while.  Most likely going to have to shovel again in the morning.

starting a new

01.01.2010.  Sci-Fi in nature, futuristic.  On the eve, rang it in at a dinner party in Goshen.  The menu consisted of homemade vegetable beef soup, vegetarian potato soup, homemade breads, potato lasagne, bean dip, and pumpkin butter cake.  Champagne at midnight.  The weather called for lake effect snow, warnings posted to last through the weekend.  Just flurries and little accumulation on the way home.  It snowed lightly all day,  played on the computer, listened to music. Went to dinner tonight, mexican, margaritas and a whiteout.  More snow.  The two or three inches grew to six, seven while dining.  A slow and steady drive home and now getting ready to close out the the first day of the year, it went fast.