The View From the Porch

In case you haven't guessed by now, when it snows here, the city of Seattle pretty much shuts down. What can I say? We're snow wimps. 

Yesterday, the public schools took a snow day, and then the snow was "late." The roads were clear in Seattle (although some nearby cities got as much as six inches, I'm told), and all those kids could have gone to school and gotten home safely before it began to snow. 

Predicting the weather is not an exact science, of course (meteorologists, feel free to disagree), so I'm not blaming the school district for erring on the side of caution. It's just that I got up yesterday expecting to be snow-bound, and I wasn't. A bit of a letdown, one that this morning's snow more than made up for. 

My plans for the day

Now that I've done the one task that I had to get done, sending off a story assignment, I feel free to drink coffee while watching the snow gently falling. I think I'm going to light a fire in the fireplace, and snuggle on the couch with a quilt while I finish the book I'm reading. Then maybe I'll take Connie out to play in the snow. 

Having a dog when it snows is like having a kid: It gives you an excuse to go out and play. Not that I need an excuse, exactly, but you know what I mean. I probably would stay in if I didn't have the dog. 

Now if I could just find my mittens! I have a great pair of rubber boots, cheap at a store called Chubby and Tubby, a Seattle icon that closed a few years ago when the owners wanted to retire.

Words to describe snow

I try not to deal in cliches, so I'm searching for some original adjectives to describe snow. 

Let's go beyond "pristine,"  please (I used that one the other day, my bad). Send me your adjectives, or post below as a comment.

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Comments

[jessica]

subzero blanket? frigid and frosty? fluffy? &%#@?

i think of snow as quieting. lulling even, at times. when we get hit really hard in mn with a fairly violent storm, i have a friend who calls it 'craptacular.' i love that.

i'll be back. more will come to me.

[Jeanne Sather]

Oh, I like these. Thanks.

It is very lulling. I'm cooking up a big pot of ramen, complete with miso, eggs, and tofu, for Older Son and me

Younger Son is off on a "quiet retreat," until Saturday. He's not allowed to talk at all during the retreat, except for half an hour a day with his spiritual advisor. How cool is that?

[Lee]

Dear Jeanne,

I just came across your site when looking into stuff about tykerb/zeloda because my sweet, caring younger sister developed symptoms of breast cancer mets just a few months after she completed her initial very long course of Adriamycin/Cytoxin/Taxol and one year of Herceptin every 3 weeks (now the docs know that it should be weekly and longer). It took her doc about 6 month to start treating her for "mets" instead of "a breast infection." I have never written or probably even read a blog before and must say that what I have read of your story brings me hope. We also lived in Seattle from 1956-1967 and Seattle holds a special place in our hearts. That's all for now. I hope you are feeling OK and I will bookmark your site and tell my sisters about it. Our mom died of metastic breast cancer in 1982; I was diagnosed in 2000 --I'm physically fine "stage IIA triple negative, node negative): my dear sister who is ill was ER/PR negative, HER2NEU positive). So logically, she should be OK since I was HER2NEU negative--but life is not logical or fair. Hope to hear back from you and others,Jeanne--Take care, thank you for having this site.--Lee