Today’s big snow adventure

Even the busiest streets in my neighborhood have an inch of packed snow on them, so few cars are out, and D. is sleeping here on Saturday night yet again. J. and I had a fun adventure, though, hiking the two-mile round trip to his apartment via a looping route. On the way there, we appreciated the last of the setting sun illuminating the snow-covered douglas-firs on the eastern ridgeline, then J. made a snow angel beside Amazon Creek. We cleared the snow off his car and collected his phone charger and a book I wanted to read to D, then headed back. The sun had set and we could see Venus; I even captured her in a photograph. We’d been gone for more than an hour at that point so D. called to check on us, but we were fine. We stopped at Safeway, too. Finally we were back in the house, reunited with the kittens and D.