Showing posts with label snow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label snow. Show all posts
Monday, February 21, 2011
Scratch That Spring Thing
We were in a snowglobe yesterday. I just spent 1 hour 45 minutes clearing the driveway. We listened to sleet hit the windows all evening. Not sure how many inches of snow we have- maybe 6. A lot of it was in drifts due to the winds. And another 3-4 inches of snow coming tonight. Ughhhhh. Make it stop.
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Snowy busy December
This must be the first time in recorded history that I unintentionally woke up before 7am on a weekend AND feel very rested. Have a lot to do today so this is a good way to start. I think this happened because we fell asleep on the couch watching Simpsons around 9pm last night. What a Friday, haha. We were both beat. My work has had mandatory overtime (5 hours per week) for about 6 weeks and it's wearing on me. And our business keeps picking up so it seems anytime we're not at work we've got something that has to be made for what we call "Job 2".
Thursday night we had a break, though. We were scheduled for Chris to give a class on herbs at the store, but they postponed it due to weather. We got about 3 inches of snow Thursday afternoon. Part of why one of our tasks today is to check out an electric snow blower at Home Depot that we saw online. Shoveling 200+ feet of sidewalk and a driveway with a sideload garage isn't fun. Good exercise, sure, but it's a pain. Especially doing that on a Friday morning before leaving for work.
So since we got to play hooky Thursday night we were able to clean up the living room, vacuum and rearrange the couch so we can set up the Christmas tree soon.
On the food front, I can't think of a lot of new exciting stuff we've done for dinner lately. However, to take for lunches at work the last couple weeks I've been making some recipes I've found for bean, lentil, grain, and other hearty salads. E.g. Southwestern Lentil Salad, Mediterranean chickpea & pasta salad, Zesty Adzuki Bean Salad, and Quinoa Pilaf with Almonds and a couple others.
Now to clean up the kitchen and make some Cozy Baking Spice for sale. It's a pumpkin pie spice with cinnamon, ginger, cloves, mace, and nutmeg. I called it Cozy Baking though so it wouldn't be restricted to pie. I used it for Snickerdoodles a couple weeks ago, it's great on oatmeal or rice pudding, spice cake, etc. Virtually anywhere cinnamon would be used. We can hardly keep it on the shelf this season - we've already sold 22 so I'm making 12 more jars momentarily.
Hoping to get the Christmas decorations up today or tomorrow. If we're feeling ambitious, we might write up a Christmas letter and send some cards! Merry Christmas!
Thursday night we had a break, though. We were scheduled for Chris to give a class on herbs at the store, but they postponed it due to weather. We got about 3 inches of snow Thursday afternoon. Part of why one of our tasks today is to check out an electric snow blower at Home Depot that we saw online. Shoveling 200+ feet of sidewalk and a driveway with a sideload garage isn't fun. Good exercise, sure, but it's a pain. Especially doing that on a Friday morning before leaving for work.
So since we got to play hooky Thursday night we were able to clean up the living room, vacuum and rearrange the couch so we can set up the Christmas tree soon.
On the food front, I can't think of a lot of new exciting stuff we've done for dinner lately. However, to take for lunches at work the last couple weeks I've been making some recipes I've found for bean, lentil, grain, and other hearty salads. E.g. Southwestern Lentil Salad, Mediterranean chickpea & pasta salad, Zesty Adzuki Bean Salad, and Quinoa Pilaf with Almonds and a couple others.
Now to clean up the kitchen and make some Cozy Baking Spice for sale. It's a pumpkin pie spice with cinnamon, ginger, cloves, mace, and nutmeg. I called it Cozy Baking though so it wouldn't be restricted to pie. I used it for Snickerdoodles a couple weeks ago, it's great on oatmeal or rice pudding, spice cake, etc. Virtually anywhere cinnamon would be used. We can hardly keep it on the shelf this season - we've already sold 22 so I'm making 12 more jars momentarily.
Hoping to get the Christmas decorations up today or tomorrow. If we're feeling ambitious, we might write up a Christmas letter and send some cards! Merry Christmas!
Sunday, December 13, 2009
A Long December
I feel like this work week was spent just surviving. We got our first snow Sunday night, so I spent a half hour shoveling the driveway before leaving for the commuter bus at 7:15. It's nice not to have to drive 45 minutes each way, but I'm away from home for 12 hours for a 8 hour work day (with 30 minutes for lunch).
Thankfully I was able to schedule 2 hours of PTO on Wednesday to come in late because I knew we were getting a huge storm Tuesday night. We had about 10-12 inches of heavy packing snow that would have been great for playing in if I didn't have to shovel and go to work. That day it was about 1 1/2 hours of shoveling before I could get out of the driveway. The commuter bus cancelled service because of the weather. Thankfully Milwaukee hardly got anything, and since I didn't have to leave until about 9:30 the roads were very nicely cleared and I made it in under an hour. Chris was able to work from home, and he spent about 3 hours shoveling our never-ending sidewalk. And I spent another half hour or 45 minutes clearing the areas of the driveway that were covered again from the drifts so I could get the car off the road. Clearing away the 4 feet of icey crap the snow plows into the driveway seems never ending. The entrance to the driveway is still just wide enough to get a car through and with 5 foot walls on either side. Like a parting of the White Sea.
We were so thankful to make it to Friday night, that we just sat around and didn't do much. Yesterday was productive though. We finished making and finally took mulling spices and holiday wassail to Nature's Garden to sell. Customers have been asking for them since our herbal tea class last week. From Allenton, we drove to Madison to Discount Tire to have the winter tires Chris had reserved put on his car. They make a world of difference. And not just in snow, winter tires work better below 45 degrees than all seasons. Unfortunately we have 3 sets of rims for 2 cars, so when I get mine, I'll either have to pay to unmount and mount summer tires on the same rims, or get another set of rims before Spring. We're getting new tires on my car in the next week. Yay.
Thankfully I was able to schedule 2 hours of PTO on Wednesday to come in late because I knew we were getting a huge storm Tuesday night. We had about 10-12 inches of heavy packing snow that would have been great for playing in if I didn't have to shovel and go to work. That day it was about 1 1/2 hours of shoveling before I could get out of the driveway. The commuter bus cancelled service because of the weather. Thankfully Milwaukee hardly got anything, and since I didn't have to leave until about 9:30 the roads were very nicely cleared and I made it in under an hour. Chris was able to work from home, and he spent about 3 hours shoveling our never-ending sidewalk. And I spent another half hour or 45 minutes clearing the areas of the driveway that were covered again from the drifts so I could get the car off the road. Clearing away the 4 feet of icey crap the snow plows into the driveway seems never ending. The entrance to the driveway is still just wide enough to get a car through and with 5 foot walls on either side. Like a parting of the White Sea.
We were so thankful to make it to Friday night, that we just sat around and didn't do much. Yesterday was productive though. We finished making and finally took mulling spices and holiday wassail to Nature's Garden to sell. Customers have been asking for them since our herbal tea class last week. From Allenton, we drove to Madison to Discount Tire to have the winter tires Chris had reserved put on his car. They make a world of difference. And not just in snow, winter tires work better below 45 degrees than all seasons. Unfortunately we have 3 sets of rims for 2 cars, so when I get mine, I'll either have to pay to unmount and mount summer tires on the same rims, or get another set of rims before Spring. We're getting new tires on my car in the next week. Yay.
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