The horrors of it all! It's snowing again! Honestly, it only snowed for 10 minutes - and you can see how big, fluffy and beautiful the flakes were! It was a sweet little storm, and now it's over! (FYI, I took this picture out of the back door of our building, looking down towards the ravine. The parking lot is off to the right. Our weather forecast through the weekend and into next week is a pretty nice one! These passing flurries are going to move through, and then the temperatures warm until we get close to 60* on Tuesday. El Nino years are always crazy weather years. 30" of snow and then 60* temperatures 10 days later.
As far as spending money this past week, I didn't. We were snowed in. I did fill the tank up on the Civic yesterday. The cost of gas has dropped so low that I was able to fill the tank for less than $20. Great for my pocket book, but I keep thinking that there's going to end up being some kind of big economic hit for these low gas prices down the line.
A casualty of one of the many potholes on the road. I don't know if you can tell, but this is the van, and the tire is shredded. The car is literally on it's rim on the parking lot. We had only been having an issue with the a/c and the defroster before this happened. This wonderful little piece of luck added $500 onto the bill. *sigh* No Spenduary here we come!!!!! Funny thing - as husband was driving this to our mechanic to get it fixed, the blue smoke was just pouring out of the wheel well. Because of all of the snow on the roads, and the insufficiently cleared shoulders, he had no place to pull over the car to change the tire. The very first safe place to stop the car was in the parking lot of our mechanic.
The shelves of our local Wal-Mart in the hours before the storm. Seriously? Considering we have 5 grocery stores in town to serve a population of thousands, HOW did we manage to keep running out of meat? And laundry detergent. Laundry Detergent was the other thing that we kept running out of. We must have a whole lot of clean laundry in our town!
Meals were simple this week. Chicken and Rice. Tacos, taco salad. Pancakes, scrambled eggs, fajitas, and baked potatoes. We worked our way through all of the veggies in the crisper drawer, with the exception of the turnips. I need to find something to do with the turnips.
The first couple of days we were home, we worked on cleaning out the big, messy room in the basement. It's still a big room, but there is significantly less mess in there now.
The next day, we worked on shoveling snow. The last two days we were home, I finished up the scrapbook for 2015. We moved middle child into his dorm room on Tuesday, and his classes started on Thursday - they were originally supposed to start on Monday. He was ready to go back to school! I was more than ready to go back to work once the roads were open again!
I hope this finds you well and warm, and with plans for a fantastic weekend with your family!
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