2024 Life Logs, Day 48: Another Snowy Day
Date: Saturday, February 17, 2024
Weather: Light Snow AM, Mid-Afternoon, and PM; High Temp 32, Low 23 degrees F
Location: At Home on Lakeview Avenue, Falmouth MA
I always think I can do more than I can actually accomplish. But I will still call today a success. I got months of Encore emails and important papers either recycled or in a notebook where they belong. I did not, however, get the accumulation of other paperwork filed away. That is what tomorrow is for! I didn’t walk a mile and half today, but I did walk three-quarters of a mile. It was snowing first thing this morning, so I took Shadow on our quarter of a mile walk around the block, with a promise to do our longer walk when the snow stopped. Around 11 o’clock, we started out with the intention of walking a mile and a quarter, but my right knee thought otherwise. If it is not snowing early in the morning, I’ll try doing the longer walk then and hope my knee holds out. In between filing papers, I read. I’m on page 625 of The Covenant of Water and only have 150 pages to go. It is a long book. I normally only read at bedtime, but recently I read a page or two and then can’t keep my eyes open. It is not because the book is not interesting. I just seem to be exhausted by bedtime. So today I allowed myself to read during the day and that worked much better.
We had a beautiful light snow this morning, probably just half an inch, and then another dusting in the middle of the afternoon and again tonight. We are getting just enough to keep everything looking bright and white. Today was a cold one, but tomorrow looks a tad warmer, hopefully with some sunshine. This snowy black and white landscape is pretty,
but I like my sunshine. But sunshine or not, it is going to be windy. That makes it a good day for staying inside and finishing my projects. I have nothing else on my calendar other than going to Heather and Jed’s to feed the cats and the fish. They left just after noon today headed for Middlesex, Vermont, where they are renting an AirBnB for the week. It is about a four-and-a-half-hour drive, but it took them longer as they had to stop to charge their electric car. Jed explained to me last night that the batteries simply do not hold a charge very well in this cold weather. But they made it and will ski/snowboard Stow tomorrow and Monday. Jed said they might do Okemo on Tuesday and on Wednesday they will take the day off as Sam has a full day of visit at Norwich University in nearby Northfield. Heather will go with Sam and Jed, Ollie, and Jonah will look for a one day adventure off the slopes.
