What a snow storm we had on Friday! It started with ice on Thursday night, turned to a full day of snow on Friday. We ended up with something between 18 and 24 inches, depending on which method of measuring you used: my plow man said we had 2 feet because his boots are 20 inches tall and the snow was over his boots. OK, that sounds good. Others measured the snow as 18-19 inches, which seems more likely to me but who knows. Either way it was a ton of snow. No, really. The ice didn't help, my car was encased in ice under the snow. Ugh.
Saturday I went to the dump, traveling roads that were slick but not impossible to navigate. What I mostly did all day was clean my house. Friends came for dinner (salmon cooked in a clay cooker along with roasted radishes) and we had a really nice time. It got cold during the afternoon and evening, was down to -5 when they left.
By this morning it was -21--wow that was a surprise to me! My house was chilly (58) but not miserable and warmed up with the sun. We had a gorgeous sunny morning and I went to the gym with friends, came back to their house for coffee and a nice visit.
I made cake for book group tonight, a bourbon apple cake. Whatever possesses me to try these things? The cake is good but the bourbon flavor is really strong.
Tonight I'll cook a pork tenderloin with roasted carrots. It can't really be called a book "group," in the winter it's just a trio. Meanwhile I need to come up with something for us to read for the next month. It's not as if I don't have enough books, I just have to pick one.
My mother's friend emptied her wall-sized bookcase and estimated the total number of books at 1500. Oh dear, this made me wonder just how many books I have--4 bookcases full, so at least a few hundred. Why, oh why?
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