The Day After Christmas

Christmas is in the rear view mirror and we can finally relax and return to normal life where we hate each other.

Don't worry. I'm not really that cynical. I love this time of year but I do like it when all the Holiday pressure is off. We still have New Years to contend with but that is so much more informal and stressless.

Susan deals with more pressure than I do but a lot of it is self-imposed. She has all these snacks and Christmas treats to make. There is a tradition to uphold and it involves some stress.

My best gift was one I've wanted for a while but held out until I got it as a Christmas gift. A shower stool.

I tried it out for the first time this morning and I love it.

I was afraid it might lead to longer showers, followed by a larger water bill. But that was not the case this morning. I think my shower time was about the same. But it's great to sit there and enjoy hot water streaming over you.

All in all, it was a good Christmas for both of us.    

Floor Review

I was looking through some old posts and I came across this picture from August 29th, 2022.

It reminded me how hideous that old linoleum floor was and I wanted to have a comparable picture with the new floor.

So there you go.   

Mt Spokane Opens

Mt. Spokane opened for the season yesterday but it doesn’t look very pretty up there.

That’s from the webcam at Lodge #2. They only have three lifts running. They say they have 28 inches on top and 15 at the Lodge.

I want to get up and ski but not under these conditions. There is no precipitation in the forecast for another five days. And that doesn’t guarantee snow. It could be rain with the warmer temperatures we had.

It looks like it’s going to be a short season unless some major chilly dumpage arrives.

The Ramifications of Snow Lethargy

I have just come in from removing snow from the sidewalks and driveway. It was a task made more difficult by my quiescently apathetic attitude towards snow removal yesterday.

We got about 3 or 4 inches of snow late yesterday and I just didn’t feel like going out to deal with it.

When I got up this morning, there was a wet heavy snow coming down that soon morphed into snain and then, straight rain. The snow on the ground became saturated with moisture.

My snow blower was useless in this stuff. I was unclogging the shute constantly. I finally figured out that I could use it with the blower off and just shove a mound of snow to the side of the driveway.

 In addition to making the snow so wet, the rain also brought down a smattering of leaves that still hung in the trees. So now they are all mixed in with the snow. Not a huge deal but if I get it in my head to make a snowman this season, I’m going to be working with a lot of dead crunchy organic material.