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snow day(s)
By heather | January 31, 2010
Having lived here for almost 10 years, I’m kind of become immune to weather forecasts because this a wanna-be kind of weather town. Wanna-be in that the weather forecasters WISH we would get huge snowstorms and hurricanes and they love it when we get floods and heat waves because it’s really pretty nice here most of the time, at least compared to where I grew up. I would think that only weather forecasters in Phoenix have less to talk about.
Anyway, it occurred to me Thursday afternoon that I should buy a few things just in case we got a few inches and I couldn’t do the regular Saturday shopping. As is my way, I kind of meandered around Trader Joe’s throwing things I thought were necessary into my cart.
Things I bought:
- milk (a nice addition to the unopened gallon already in the fridge)
- eggs (ditto for the dozen already there)
- a pork tenderloin (no I don’t know why either)
Things I DID NOT buy that I totally should have if I were seriously planning to not go anywhere for the next 3 days:
- COFFEE ( We are out OUT of everything but decaf and may not survive another day in the house without)
- butter (necessary for everything from pancakes to cookie baking to mashed potatoes)
- salt and pepper (again, necessary for everything)
- mandarin oranges (one of the only guaranteed kids will eat it foods)
So that said, for once we actually got the worst case scenario. In fact, our street is now a solid sheet of 3 inch thick ice. Total we got about 8 inches of snow topped with ice topped with more snow.
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| Day 1…waking up to white |
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| You know it’s a good time when your pants are totally snow covered… |
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| The snowman may not have a head but he does have a hat… |
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| Shoveling… |
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| Helping build the snowman… |
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Topics: Alex, EK | 1 Comment »
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February 3rd, 2010 at 1:02 pm
But you were totally prepared with their clothing! Those kids could have lasted days outside without getting cold
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