Really, More Snow?

We're looking at three days of snow showers here, which thankfully will conclude just before a visit from my family. But it doesn't change the fact that we're sitting in several feet of snow already, it's been arctic-ly cold (I believe the lowest wind chill yesterday was -27 degrees.) and the little ones haven't been out of the house except for the briefest of trips to the store or a friend's house. To say that we're going stir-crazy is truly an understatement.

Well, OK, I'm going stir-crazy. Alex would like some time out of the house, and Gabe doesn't care as long as he gets his Craisin fix every day, so maybe it's just me. But I really just want to see the lawn, plant some veggies, and get on with Spring. The baby garlic we've been growing in the kitchen just isn't cutting it, and no amount of begonia flowers (does that thing ever stop blooming?) will cut through the foggy, snowy, ridiculous cold! Hot chocolate schmot chocolate, I want some vodka and tonic weather! Obviously I need to find some greenhouses to take shelter in for a while, because Winter has gone on for long enough.

Yes, I know it's not even February. But the sun is clearly in the sky for, what, a whole minute or two longer every day? Isn't it time it got a wee bit warmer too? Maybe the snow could, oh, I don't know, melt? I'd give my right arm for a warm, rainy day to go puddle jumping with the kids instead of a cold, blowy day of trying not to kill myself of the sheet of ice that is our lower driveway while trying to retrieve the mail that's most likely 90% junk mail. We get it AmEx, you can give us a million different credit cards and maybe even a Caribbean vacation. If you had a permanent Spring credit card, I'd sign up, but you don't, so stop it with the recycling fodder already.

Even the neigh-bors are hiding away now. They've both donned their blankets and determined that it is literally not fit for man or beast out there, so we don't even have the pleasure of watching the horses occasionally roll around in the snow. Or ice-covered snow that's there now. *sigh* Anyway, only Diesel still thinks outside is a good idea, and I'm sure she'd change her mind if she actually escaped.

Anyhoo, it looks like another day stuck inside hoping that the snow won't need to be blown of the driveway (but with the new new super snow blower, might as well) and convincing Alex that not every drink needs to be hot chocolate. Even if we do finally have mini marshmallows. Eh, whatever. Here's Alex sledding with Daddy before we became part of the Arctic Circle.