Miscellany of a Cheshire Cat

I went out this morning in the Eye of the SNOWPOCALYPSE.
There was no precipitation when I started clearing the 4-5″ of snow that fell overnight.
Then it started to lightly mist and rain.
Then sleet.
Then snow for a bit.
Then back to sleet.
Then freezing rain like little snowballs.
Then it rained again for a bit.
At one point, I think it was snow, rain, sleet and freezing rain all at once.

Clearing the new snow wasn’t a problem. Clearing the snow the plow had shoved up over onto the sidewalk and in front of our driveways was the challenge. The Best Neighbor in the World loaned me the wee electric snowblower again and then came out to help too. The snowbank at the end of our driveways was really too much for it and I finished clearing most of that with the shovel. But with the 2 of us, we got down the sidewalk.

Since then, the full-force of the storm has hit. Proper white-out conditions and everything!

And there go the big, gusting winds we were expecting.

I’m going to have to go out there again… probably in the next hour… just to keep up. I love this!

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Yes, late again… blame the first round of snow removal from SNOWPOCALYPSE II: This time it means business.

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Shape of: meta-culture
Form of: entirely too many bored people

A general overview: Andy J. Williams Affleck: Two point conversion. Furry rodents galore (3 commercials and counting). Lack of pants. Old guys badly singing old music. And beer. Lots of beer. Did I miss anything?

On the national anthem: Dave Lee: Carie Underwood’s National Anthem final note SPLAT!!!

On the halftime show: Pam Kamps: Anyone else out there think the who should not do a come back tour and maybe retire… Pete was off key so much i felt sorry for him

On victory: Christine Militello Sova: just seeing Peyton cry made it all worth while! :)

Most exciting non-superbowl status update: Jenny Sweedler: Justin made BACON MUFFINS. he is insane :)

Jenny, I totally want the recipe for those muffins.

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The snow is tapering off. From the radar, it looks like we won’t have much more significant snowfall from this storm – maybe a couple more inches as the tail of the storm whips around but that’s about it. There may be as much as 20 inches out there right now. Several of the spots I cleared were well over 24 inches deep and they weren’t the highest drifts.

I walked out to this: Where are the stairs?

It was actually quite pretty before I cleared the snow.

Quickly I was able to get to this: Oh hey, there they are…

The wind has actually made my car a little more visible.

I ended up looking a little like this and this. The Best Neighbor in the World cleared the sidewalk with his snowblower and then let me borrow it to clean out the end of the drive way. There are distinct advantages to a snowblower over a shovel, even if the snowblower is just a little electric one. It was the underdog but it came out victorious.

Why yes, I do shovel snow in my Fluevogs. And, yes, my socks were perfectly dry at the end of the shoveling exercise. Oh, and, yes, I am enjoying all this snow. A lot.

Snow photos are all collected here if you don’t want to click through everything.

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The SNOWPOCALYPSE is on-going.

My car, the Mini Clubman. If the snowdrifts eat it, I have documentation.

The Fop’s big-ass SUV (a Dodge Durango).

The roof.

The snow has been blowing quite a bit but it’s still coming down hard and fast with no sign of letting up. The Church across the way has done a preliminary clear of their sidewalks so I don’t feel the need to go out and do ours yet. The priest is out with his Little White Dog, but I swear it took me a good 2-3 minutes to realize he wasn’t just standing there in the snow like a weirdo because I couldn’t see the dog at all until it moved in front of a non-snow-covered bush.

The radar this morning looks remarkably similar to the radar from last night at 1 a.m. The storm hasn’t moved much. The Greater Philadelphia area is still in purple. HURRAY!

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A bunch of sleepy kitten pictures have been posted to warm you on a snowy weekend. The SNOWPOCALYPSE is still going strong down here with 5-ish or so inches of snow already on the ground. We’ll see if it lives up to the hype. The kittens are thrilled. Abby is peering out the window right now trying to figure out why the world is so different. (This is their second big snow so it’s still rather novel.)

Tonight, in honor of the SNOWPOCALYPSE, I made deep-dish pizza in little cast iron pans. I rushed the dough through its rise but there was much tastiness anyway. I also finished knitting a cute little hat for myself. Tomorrow I suspect will be all about reading in the tub after moving large quantities of snow. It’s been a very long week. At the end of it I’m not entirely sure what I accomplished but I’m sure there was a lot.

Right, time to sleep.

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This was, in fact, the discussion Tenny and I had this morning. I believe, deep down, he’s jealous of the trackball because I often spend more time patting it than I do him in a given day… you know, because I’m working and all. So this morning he leaned and then sat and then leaned on it. He would not move when I tried to use the trackball around him. This is what I get for go away for the weekend I guess!

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