Yikes! Not cool, school.

We have reached our high temperature of the day today: 9℉ (windchill is -2℉). Snow is still falling. The only birds at the feeder are dark-eyed juncoes, and they are all fluffed up for insulation.

USPS Informed Delivery emailed me that my mail had been delivered (one 1099-INT and one Kickstarter reward), so I bundled up and trudged to the mailbox. The promised mail was not there. Grrrrr.

I am staying in the rest of today, and (if all goes well) all of tomorrow too. Monday morning at oh-dark-hundred I have to drive about 30 minutes away to get an MRI (annual check on my pituitary, to make sure it is still the same size and shape it is supposed to be).

Forecast says we won't get back up to freezing until noon on Monday 02 February. Brrrrr.

The only positive spin I can put on that is that the snow is all dry powder, easy to brush off my car. No nasty stubborn ice to be scraped.

Wow!

Also noting that I got a Kickstarter reward yesterday, as informed by USPS and also in actuality. Tom Tomorrow’s Our Long National Nightmare which I am glad to have but not in the mood to actually read right now…might be a while

I’m glad for your mom, Trudy.

I’m less glad for your tooth, Tom. I hope you can get it fixed soon.

Today I dragged my butt out the door into -14F weather to help my sister chase after one of the grandnephews (the other was going to a friend’s birthday party). Three hours of running after a toddler is a lot if you don’t do it all the time. He’s a sweet kid who likes us and wants to play. I figure when he hits 13 he’ll be far less interested in hanging with his great aunt, so I’m enjoying it while it lasts. Then there was a couple of hours running around with my sister, and now I’m home, enjoying my comfy sofa.

Good stuff, Calli

... -14F weather...one of the grandnephews....

Did you show him the toss-boiling-water-into-the-air-to-make-snow trick?

Vocational Rehabilitation paying was always kind of like that, Hec. Sad that that's the memory Matilda's college life brings back.But I got through it(and if I live to be 150 maybe it will even out, somewhat) and she will too.

I started my taxes, although I am not willing to dig up my mortgage info right now so that’s on pause, and I looked up the training I was thinking of doing tomorrow that is actually in a couple of weeks. So I have not actually *done* anything but I feel vaguely accomplished.

Yesterday, my mom had some fresh cilantro she wanted to use but she couldn’t find any of the recipes she remembered not having the cilantro they called for. We did eventually find one for a sweet potato and black bean chili that required hardly any substitutions and did include cilantro. It was really good, especially with the buttered cornbread we also threw together.

B.org is, of course, where I feel any chili or cilantro news might be appreciated.

sweet potato and black bean chili that required hardly any substitutions and did include cilantro. It was really good, especially with the buttered cornbread we also threw together.

That sounds really good!

It's snowing very lightly (started within the last hour), so I opted to DoorDash Indian food from the place that's just 2 miles away. I wouldn't have ordered if it were snowing hard, or if there was any accumulation, but it's pretty decent right now, and matar paneer just sounded so good. [edit] And I tipped extra well because of the weather.