The low stress version of a snow day
Crossing my fingers may have worked. Two weather systems and an expensive forecasting system may have helped, a little. Even though the roads were clear, at dawn, the school boards of this region decided to go with cautious. Snow day!
I was ready. My coffee in the Thermos, my muffins wrapped for travel, I was all set to go and catch a bus (forgiven, the two hours I needed to get home last evening). When the radio/web confirmed closure by o6h20, the flexibility factor kicked in. I drank the coffee, ate the muffin and by 08h00 my plan was ready.
Reset. By 08h30, my plan was ready. Off to the supermarket to purchase the groceries needed for a good batch of chili and a lot of cookies. By 09h00, my cooking was started (the cookies belonged to another).
Sometime after lunch (excellent chili, in passing), it was made clear that there was a snow storm underway, and that the driveway would not clear itself. Now, there’s the hard version and the easy one. The hard version saw me with a shovel, trying to crack the code of the snowbank. The easy version saw the lad with the tractor clearing the driveway in one move. Inadvertently, while backing up. That’s our story, in case his boss asks.
One of the cheaper things available in the cookware section of the local tire store is the cookie sheet. Essential to preparation of so many menu items, and a bargain at less than $4 a piece. I braved the snowy roads (and the fear of being crushed by a stampeding fire pumper) and we now have enough sheet metal to get us through another year or two.
