Catching Up

I've been neglecting this blog lately, I know. It's easy to do with Facebook and Twitter out there.

I'll start with the thing most people are talking about right now: The Snow!!

Yes. You read that right. Snow. In the middle of October.

So much, in fact, that I have a snow day today.

(Which is nice, 'cause it means an unexpected day off of work.)

(But bad because, WTF?? Snow in October??)

Pictorial evidence:



This was my drive to the store last week. A sort of gloomy, rainy day. Typical fall weather. The leaves were just beginning to turn.





These were trees from our backyard yesterday. There has been more snow since then.



Since the trees all still have leaves on them, the snow is weighing them down and causing branches to break off. A lot of people have lost power and phones in the area. We lost power at about 4:30am on Friday. It came back on between 9:30 and 10:00am.



The Boy™ discovered snow can make a nice cupholder on the roof of the car. Until it melts, that is. Then it makes a crappy cupholder.

The upside of this sudden, unnatural and unexpected snow storm (aside from my day off today) is that we have discovered that the heat in the new apartment does not, in fact, work. The maintenance guys have been here for the past few days working on it. I'm glad that they've figured it out now, when it's supposed to warm up in a few days, rather than November when it'll just get colder and colder until Spring.

I'll try harder not to neglect this poor blog so much. Next to come, a couple of pictures of ColinB from Pete and Meg's wedding last weekend. I meant to take more pictures of the actual wedding, but .... I'm a doting Auntie. I can't help myself.