It's sledding weather!

[elfs]

So, on the last day of the year it decides to snow. When I woke up, I knew I did not want to get out of bed and face the day; there's something about snow that makes me want to dig myself deep under the covers and hibernate all day long. It's a strange sensation, especially when the girls were both ready to get up and go outside even before breakfast. As it was, I must have hit the alarm button to off because I didn't wake up until it was time to catch the 8:30 bus, and usually I catch the 7:10. Urgh.

After making myself a batch of coffee and a grapefruit, I headed out to the bus stop, arriving at 8:25. And I waited. And waited. Until 9:00. Then I gave up. I tried to call the office but no one was there to answer the phone. I walked home, dropped my manager a note saying I was snowed in (actually somewhat true, as the road leading out of my subdivision was blocked off as "too treacherous.).

So after breakfast (pancakes, waffles, and french toast, all from the freezer and nicely rewarmed on the baking stone), we went out to play. Our neighbor graciously loaned us an inflatable sled (yeah, you read that right) made by Coleman (the camping people) because they didn't have the tools to inflate it and we did. After inflating it, we walked two blocks up the hill to the local school, which is attached to a public park and the slope between them makes a great sledding hill.

The girls with the sled.

Even Omaha went down the hill.

Omaha hurtles to her doom.

Quite a few other people had the same idea, and there were about a dozen people there, all ages, but a few definitely Kouryou-chan and Yamaarashi-chan's age. Sharing and trading of sleds was commonplace, so the girls got to try discs and plastic sleds and even and inner tube, while others used our rather nice toy.

Afterward, Omaha made hot chocolate. Mmm... The real stuff. She's wonderful.

For technoshaman: Pentagon says Haliburton-KBR served troops food in "filthy" kitchens. The Pentagon reported finding "blood all over the floor," "dirty pans," "dirty grills," "dirty salad bars" and "rotting meats ... and vegetables" in four of the military messes operated by H/KBR.

And now that I have Kanon episodes one and two, I can see what Piro is all so serious about.xk