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Snowbound yet again (a long winter)
Feb. 8th, 2014 11:15 pmWe are all still basically camped out in the house. My laptop worked fine all day but just now, investigating the various weather reports on the local news websites, I got that fake virus message again, so it’s back to another boot-scan. (I’m posting from the desktop.)
Meanwhile… I was able to stay inside most of the day, though I did venture out to the mailbox. Everything, including the 10” of snow, is coated with a layer of ice, so walking was pretty strange. J. took each of the kittens outdoors in turn and set them on the snow; they didn’t even indent the surface. My poor “adolescent” scarlet oak in the back yard, a spindly thing about 20' tall, is now bowed over, its tip touching the ground, but it doesn’t seem to have snapped. Many, many trees in Eugene have, though, and quite a few houses have lost power.
We all had soup for dinner, then J. and I watched the Dragonball Evolution movie, not as bad as one might expect, but probably pretty incomprehensible (and stupid) to anyone unfamiliar with the story. Then he made a dessert for him and D. with snow he’d collected yesterday (falling into the bowl, not scooped from the ground) and condensed milk. It turned out to be a beverage instead, but I think they liked it.
Meanwhile… I was able to stay inside most of the day, though I did venture out to the mailbox. Everything, including the 10” of snow, is coated with a layer of ice, so walking was pretty strange. J. took each of the kittens outdoors in turn and set them on the snow; they didn’t even indent the surface. My poor “adolescent” scarlet oak in the back yard, a spindly thing about 20' tall, is now bowed over, its tip touching the ground, but it doesn’t seem to have snapped. Many, many trees in Eugene have, though, and quite a few houses have lost power.
We all had soup for dinner, then J. and I watched the Dragonball Evolution movie, not as bad as one might expect, but probably pretty incomprehensible (and stupid) to anyone unfamiliar with the story. Then he made a dessert for him and D. with snow he’d collected yesterday (falling into the bowl, not scooped from the ground) and condensed milk. It turned out to be a beverage instead, but I think they liked it.