This morning I bought the Norris Bulletin and was able to resolve my footprints-in-the-snow mysteryAccording to the just-published police report, during the snowstorm that began Wednesday evening, January 5, and continued until morning, the police were "called by a resident of Garden Road," who "requested an officer to check on a white male in a ( Read more... )

Windy, snow falling ( Read more... )

I just got used to my neighbors--the woman a dental hygienist with beautiful teeth, her new husband a morose and silent man who never came outside except to shoot arrows into a target, and Dillon, a three-year-old tough boy who could already drive a child-sized motorized Jeep around the yard--yes: I got used to them, and even got Dillon to ( Read more... )

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I woke up at 4:30 and looked outside.

The ground was white, the privet hedge across the road was white!

I could see light shining under Kate's bedroom door across the hallway; she had stayed up all night to finish my Christmas shawl ( Read more... )

I am debating the ethics of baking cupcakes when one has acquired a sniffly cold, and I'm thinking my time might better be spent reading my current book about altitude headaches on Mount Everest ( Read more... )

This was the year we stayed in Clovis, New Mexico, instead of traveling to Oklahoma for Christmas, because Mother was pregnant with my sister Janice, who would be born on January 5 ( Read more... )

The nandina bushes in front of the house are bent over with ice, there are icicles hanging off the shed, the bamboos at the back of the yard by the woods are drooping over, their bushy tops glazed over and so heavy they are lying on the ground at the pets' cemetery ( Read more... )

One final Wednesday post:

The ice storm is being taken so seriously that Todd Howell, Chief Meteorologist on Channel 10, is sleeping at the studio tonight, on a cot!

There are reports of sleet up on the plateau (where they suffer more than do we valley dwellers), and it is heading this way.Kate is now on her way home, I am not going to choir ( Read more... )

I am back from shopping, and we now have enough milk and bread, obligatory groceries, to make it through tonight and tomorrow ( Read more... )