Tired of Snow? Where should it go?

Snowed in again. And the week ahead doesn't look good.

Last weekend, we were off Friday and Monday for a planned holiday. Then it snowed and activities were canceled. Three of us were at Lafayette for Carly's official visit there, along with the other field hockey players and parents. That's deserving of its own blog post, but the snow owns this one.

Katie stayed home sick on Tuesday, and then we had a snow day on Wednesday. Whoohoo. A full day of school for both on Thursday, before school was canceled for Friday. And now Monday. And who knows for how much longer.

What have I/we accomplished? Together we've shoveled a lot of snow. We've made home cooked meals. Baked risotto, baked ziti with sausage (using Villa Cappelli Sun Dried Tomato Ketchup), and an experimental dish with pasta, ricotta, spinach, walnuts, and red pepper sauce (employing Merlano Red Pesto). (It needed goat cheese). We've made two loaves of No Knead Bread (see prior blog post), and one loaf of Irish Soda Bread. I've sampled Olio2go's Vincotto Fig Vinegar (now I know why people buy it by the case), and experimented with a lemon extra virgin olive oil. I've eaten spoonfuls of Livio Pesle Balsamic Vinegar Jelly, accompanied by cheese. We've gone through 5 boxes of Kleenex, and although we have "light", we are running out of lightbulbs. We will run out of laundry detergent before we run out of food. Our best accomplishment was a total cleanout of Carly's room. Sadly, we had to miss out on the Navy-Bucknell basketball game and Bucknell alumni event.

We have worked on our trip planning for our late June jaunt to Rome. I think we've found an apartment to rent. Six nights. Piazza Navona. Be there.

My favorite make-fun-of-the-news story was of the woman in Alexandria who threw out the food spoiling in her refrigerator after the loss of power. Sticking it all in a snowbank didn't occur to her. Duh.

According to the news today, VDOT was hoping to get the interstates plowed by nightfall. I wonder if they were successful? Our street looks amazingly good -- but that's because our Homeowners' Association has paid $1800. Our roads (for ~50 houses) are maintained by the Commonwealth of Virginia. They say we should have our first pass through by Wednesday evening. Uh-oh. There's another storm coming Tuesday, into Wednesday.

This has been a phenomenal amount of snow for a region not known for its snowplows. We're entertaining bets on when schools will again be open for a full day. See Facebook for more fun on this topic.

College Confidential, Facebook, Twitter, and various biographical Google searches have been conducted. Emails have been exchanged with old friends. UPS and FedEx have not provided service updates for the DC area. That's what I need to determine my work day tomorrow.

Current reading: The Last Amateurs, by John Feinstein about Patriot League Basketball.