snow....

First round of shoveling complete. Over 4 inches of heavy snow - not really wet, but heavy. We're supposed to get another 8 inches after this. By the time we finished shoveling the driveway, the porch where I started had a quarter of an inch of snow on it.

Music is hard. that is all. Monday's FCB rehearsal was hard - I didn't realise how hard until my brain was still tired Tuesday morning. And then I had another rehearsal on Tuesday - the concert for that is in three weeks!

J just realised that Capricon is this weekend. We've had memberships and a room since last October, but it's a different weekend than it's been in years, so that's allowed. I'm seriously thinking about skipping it -- my back has been being cranky, and all this shoveling isn't going to help. Not relishing the thought of 10 hours in the car and a weekend of finding the 'least bad' chair to sit in. I'm also not particularly looking forward to being obviously ignored -- every time we go to a con, J checks into the room with me, and then I don't see him for the rest of the weekend until it's time to go home on Sunday, unless I make an effort to track him down. "but Friends! FOMO!" "yes, but Family is important too, right?"

And more snow.....

Second round of shoveling complete. Another 5 inches of (lighter) snow. Still snowing, though. I was gonna put off this round of shoveling until closer to sundown, but J wanted to do his walk and he wanted to shovel *before* he walked. (60 minutes of shoveling should pretty much cover 10K steps, I'd think, but noooooooo......) We'll probably have another 6-8 inches of snow by 8am tomorrow. It's not windy yet, but the weather service tells us that the wind will come up overnight. whee?

I need to find my taller boots before I go out into the back yard to bring in the birdfeeders.

I've been looking for the ruler that I use for measuring snowfall, but it's probably out in the lab somewhere, so I'll never find it.