Blowing & Drifting

Forecast: Significant blowing and drifting, with the possibility of heavy accumulation in rural areas.

TremendouStormTM Update 4, Plus Other Domesticana

It snowed on and off all day today, but it wasn't exactly a blizzard. The winds did create, just outside our patio door, a magnificent drift about ten feet long and three feet high. Ski Man is buried somewhere inside it.

The winds figuratively also blew Genevieve out of our bedroom and into the guest room, where she'll stay until an eventual move into the bedroom, currently solely inhabited by Julia, a.k.a. the Singer of the Loud Nighttime Songs. <fingers crossed> We'll see how this first shift goes. </fingers crossed> It's a bittersweet milestone, marking the fact that baby Gigi's already old enough to be elsewhere at night.

On the other hand, I know Shannon's happy to see impending end of the all-night milk bar (and the immediate end of waking at Gigi's every snuffle). With Gigi in her "own" room, we can also enjoy full use of ye olde master suite again. Among other things, this means that I don't have to get dressed for work in the kitchen anymore. It also means that we can use the shower at night. And this, combined with Gigi's improving ability to sleep through the night and with the nice snowfall, meant that I could go out and ski a bit tonight. I did about a dozen laps of our "backyard." I was out there for about 30 minutes, in which time I fell on my face twice, and encountered a tiny but surly black mouse. I've skied many a kilometer, on snow skis and roller skis, but never before come so close to creating roadkill.