It's All White

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Winter arrived in full force yesterday and will continue today and tomorrow.  It's cold, 18º, and we have gotten probably a foot of snow in the past 36 hours.  This afternoon it's supposed to heat up, blizzard conditions although, at the moment, it's not snowing.  I take that back.  It has just started to snow.  Yoga is canceled, however, because of the forecast as are most of the schools around here. Because of a day off from yoga, I decided to go crazy and have pumpkin pie for breakfast instead of granola.

Yesterday morning was sketchy, as I was not sure I should venture out on the road and drive to yoga class.  After writing the blog and breakfast, it took me 15 minutes to clear the snow and ice off the car and clear our driveway of a good 8 inches of snow.  The road to Lakewood was plowed but slushy so it would have been difficult to stop quickly without sliding, thus I took my time and hoped others did as well.  About ten of the hardy made it to a good class and  I was glad I went.  I decided to stop for coffee and it was more crowded than I expected, probably because schools were closed.

The roads were much better on the way home, with a gentle snowfall.  Evie had been busy making a pumpkin pie,  the wash and kitchen but was watching the news when I returned home.  We were both excited about our throwback lunch since Evie bought some goose liver yesterday at Wegman's and I picked up Fritos at Sav A Lot.  For Evie, a goose liver sandwich, with lettuce, and pickle was her favorite lunchtime sandwich when she was growing up.  So we were excited to sit down to lunch, with our goose liver and Fritos, topped off by the sharing of a Pepsi.  We were already suffering from finishing 62 hours of Breaking Bad so the logical thing to do was watch the El Camino, a movie that was supposedly a sequel to the series, following Jessie after the death of Walter White.  We watched the first hour of the film and decided to save the last half for the evening.  It's not up to Breaking Bad standards but still worth watching if you liked the series.

The afternoon went quickly, as we hunkered down inside, watching the gentle snow, watching some TV, napping, and reading.  Around 3:30 I went outside and shoveled the parking area and walk once again, trying to keep up with the snowfall.  We were having meatloaf for dinner, so Evie had it ready to plop in the oven and I washed some red potatoes and put them in the oven to bake.  While the meatloaf and potatoes baked, we were transfixed by the snow falling on a rapidly darkening sky.  Just before the meat and potatoes were ready, Evie steamed than roasted some Brussel sprouts and made a salad so we had another throwback to childhood feast, meatloaf, potatoes, and salad, not Brussel sprouts because I hated them when I was a kid.

We finished the movie, El Camino, watched some of the latest news, always depressing, never uplifting, so we turned to another series we have loved, The Americans, and watched the first episode.  It looks like we have another series to watch again over the next couple of weeks.  It's funny how much we don't remember about The Americans, a series that we loved.  The same was true of Breaking Bad.  We knew the overall themes but forgot the details, at least many of them.