Escape From Snowmageddon 2010

This weekend was such and adventure. It's hard to know where to start. Perhaps it's best to take it one thing at a time which was exacty my approach to the great adventure.

Friday was insane. Our bags were packed and ready to go and then the snow started falling. Schools never even opened but my office did and, the satellite tv guys still came out to do the install. Through it all the snow fell and I worried about if we'd actually get to NYC. My stomache was tied up in knots!



By 3pm my office had finally given in to the snow and closed and, with one of out cars secure in the covered garage at Union Station, my little family was on a train bound for NY. We all heaved a huge sigh of relief.

We attended my niece's Sweet Sixteen and it was so worth all the stress to be there with our family for a happy occasion. On Saturday afternoon before the party we even got to squeeze in a visit with my grandparents. DQ, Stinkette, my grandfather and I played Rummy-o. I lost every game but DQ won once, my grandfather one once, and Stinkette kicked our butts twice!



Late Saturday night as the party wound down it was panic time again. Planes weren't flying into DC and many of the trains had been cancelled. Thankfully we got on one of the few trains that did run and we arrived home last night to find streets that hadn't been plowed and cars were stuck everywhere.



Once we did get home we found a driveway that we couldn't get into. Thankfully our neighbor had shoveled hers so we had a place to put our car until we were able to shovel ours.

Now, to add insult to injury, we're under a storm warning again. They expect 6-12 inches to fall.

ECF - Interpretation Edition

What do you see when you look at this picture? Do you see a lovely, bluish, shadow of a tree displayed upon a pristine blanket of fresh, white, snow? Or do you see an ominous sign that winter is not nearly ready to relinquish it's hold on you? Oh the difference a week makes!

A week ago when I took this picture I had the former view but today, with a massive storm on the way, I'm firmly in the latter camp. I guess it's a bit like a Rorschach test for the winter.

Fluid Situtation

The forecast seems to get worse and worse. Now they're predicting upwards of 12 inches of snow for us this weekend. It's becoming very obvious that we're not going anywhere at all this weekend.

As if that wasn't enough, we learned something this week. A dying DVR behaves a whole lot like a satellite with poor reception. Who knew! Over the past months we've had bits of weirdness but we attributed it to the signal. Early this week our DVR started making weird noises and now it's completely dead. Do you know what that does to our television viewing? It's really not pretty.

They're coming out to install the new DVR and the new dish it requires in Friday morning. The snow is supposed to arrive about mid-day. I have a really bad feeling about this. Something tells me that we may suffer through this storm at home with no DVR.

Happily there is good news in the world of knit. I stared this Bitterroot on Sunday and it's flying on my needles. I'm nearly finished with chart "C" which means that it's decision time. Shawlette or full sized shawl. I'm thinking the latter. Clearly I'll have plenty of time to work on it this weekend.



Possibly the best part of this project is the yarn - Elann Baby Silk in Gentle Violet. I adore the color (as will the recipient) and it feels glorious. Best of all it was stash yarn. Go me! Three cheers for shrinking the stash. This yarn had been in there since March 2005!

I think that I deserve a reward for all these stash busting projects. Perhaps Elann has something fun to offer.