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[jackiejj]

Snow is falling steadily outside, and inside the house is dark

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[grrlpup]

wow! I keep thinking I should be fabulously wealthy because I don't smoke, but I haven't noticed that so far. Maybe I'd have to smoke, then quit, to feel it.

I also and sincerely hope you have a nice day!

[jackiejj]

The snow has stopped and it's become lighter inside the house.

Thank you for your kind wish, and: "You, too!"

[halfmoon_mollie]

my mom recently quit smoking after 60+ years, not because of her health but because of the cost. She's amazed at how much more money she has.

Jackie, I wish I was home with you. I am so sick of winter, and a day at home (even a dark one) with a novel and some hot tea sounds heavenly.

I sincerely hope you have a nice day.

[jackiejj]

And you, too!

I wish I could pull you into the living room.

The snow has stopped, and Kate's coming home soon; we're going to watch The Killer Shrews (an MST3K movie!) on Netflix tonight while she spins up some wool.

[baritonejeff]

I presume your horror comes from finding out how outrageous the price is for a carton of cigarettes. Ask most hard core smokers: if it came to a choice between food and cigarettes, which would you choose? The answer will tell you just how terrible an addiction cigarettes are.

I'm glad that you're having a nice day. I can pretty much guarantee that sarcastic clerk isn't. Sad.

[jackiejj]

Yes! Over $50! How can people do it, AND buy gas for cars?

I hope my neighbor isn't a pack-a-day smoker!

[idahoswede]

I'm glad you're having a nice day, and I love cobalt blue glass.

[jackiejj]

I appreciate cobalt blue more in winter--in summer there are so many colors.

[pondhopper]

This winter seems quite long even to me here in not so sunny (this year, anyway) southern Spain. But snow is lovely when you don't get much of it.

Your cobalt blue glass looks like a painting today, Jackie.
And I'm VERY glad you're having a good day!

(I was so unaware that cigarettes cost THAT much...how can anybody except the most wealthy support that habit?)

[jackiejj]

I can't imagine! That's unbelievably expensive! (To say nothing of what it does physically...)

Our snow went away--for now. February is our usual snowiest month.

[pameladean]

We're having one of those eerie days where the snow and sky are the same color, and it seems one is in a kind of snow globe. Crows are yelling and a lot of fluffed-up chickadees are eating at the bird feeder. I think I will emulate you and have some tea. I'm glad your day is nice.

P.

[jackiejj]

snow and sky are the same color, and it seems one is in a kind of snow globe.

What a lovely image, Pamela.

I keep hearing about the awful snows and cold weather you (and Laura Blanchard in Philadelphia) are enduring. Our rather gentle climate is not so exciting, but is easier to navigate.

People are saying they are seeing robins here! I saw one this morning on a fence. (Remember 'way back when there were over a hundred gobbling up the holly berries in my yard?)

[pameladean]

We haven't had any awful snow since the first blizzard. Our household just bought a small electric snowblower, so I figure we won't have any more blizzards this season, maybe for longer. It has certainly been extremely cold.

I saw robins here after the big blizzard, eating hackberries. I haven't seen any recently, so they may finally have left, or may be staying somewhere with artificial heat. The university campus always has some robins staying near their big exhaust vents, because it's much warmer around them.

I do remember your holly-berry robins! I haven't ever seen that many -- the hackberry flock numbered maybe thirty, with some auxilary starlings, who can't cling to branches well but can pick berries up off the ground after the robins have dropped them.

P.