Not sure why everyone says it is so rare; we seem to get it at least one storm every winter.

Egg sandwich with pesto and TJs quatro formaggio on a ciabatta I unearthed from the freezer. I need it after all that wine.

Loki's trying to figure out why half the window is covered...

Glad I filled the birdfeeder last night; the birds are quite enjoying it.

Timelies all!

Lots of snow, but no thunder here. Plenty of wind, though.

We're planning to make turkey chili in the slow cooker. Not like we could go out for dinner.

Looks like MA will be largely unscathed.

I've never had thundersnow! I'm jealous.

We have a foot of snow, more in drifts like on my patio, and it's still coming down, supposed to accumulate another 3 inches today. The next few days it'll be above freezing during the day and below at night, meaning the daily melt will turn to treacherous ice at night. This isn't going to go away by Tuesday, certainly not at my south-facing house.

There's something comforting, to me, about being snowed in (and safe, of course). No one can get in and no one can expect me to get out. If I had to get out for work, I would, but I'm happy to work from home and not get any snow days just to not have to dig my way out.

Our predicted snowpocalypse was instead a nopocalypse. At least in our county. The counties to the east and south got snow, but even they didn't get as much as the original forecasts threatened.

We had a couple of brief flakes here. The wind is nearly at gale strength, so I think we dodged good.

I just turned in my rental Uber phone, my new AT&T phone runs the driver app really well enough.

And we have thundersnow.

We missed the thundersnow! Unless that's what woke me up at 5 (after which I had no problem going back to sleep). Before bed last night there was screamfightsnow courtesy of the one bad neighbor on our side of the street. His girlfriend was screaming for the neighbors to call 911 so, of course we did. Then I went outside to yell at them that we were calling 911 and they should go the fuck home and act like fucking adults. Which they did, or at least he walked off one way and she did the other while calling me a bitch. Fun times! I should have been more restrained and less "fuck" yelling but, sheesh, it was a beautiful snowy evening that they disrupted with their dysfunctional relationship.

It may have started around the, I woke up suddenly at 5:43....

Shoveled. Need a nap now.

You're welcome, Jesse!

Thundersnow does sound kind of awesome, in the I am struck with awe and mildly terrified kind of way.

I do a similar salad with quinoa, black beans, peppers, cilantro, feta, and avocado...

Yum to that too, although the older I get the less my system tolerates peppers, the bummer, because they do add a certain crisp tang to a chopped salad.