Snow day

The DC area got its first real snowfall of this winter yesterday. I did not realize this was coming, or I’d have looked for a snow shovel on Saturday when I was at Home Depot getting spare keys (plural) cut. Instead I was one of those clueless morons at Home Depot on Monday afternoon looking in vain—by that time, nothing left but an empty carton that had once held them.

So I was reduced to praying that we’d get only a dusting, so I wouldn’t disgrace myself in front of my new neighbors by being the only resident with unshoveled walkways.

No such luck.

It wasn’t of snowmageddon proportions, but we got a couple of inches. 

The only thing I had to try to deal with the snow on my car and the sidewalk was a push broom. I did my best, but it was pathetic (although my car is cleared off). So I was reduced still further to hoping for temperatures to rise to the point that it would melt.

Not quite, but let’s pray for tomorrow, eh?

At any rate, I tossed a couple of handfuls of Fine Tunes out on the snow and then I almost got no work done at all, because the birds were so happy. Cardinals, a really bossy robin, chickadees, juncos, jays—it was big screen kitty TV out my patio door. See:

The squirrel did not show up until late afternoon, so the birds got a pretty good buffet before it started vacuuming everything up.

I had to come into the office today just to get real work done. Maybe I should print out an apology to my neighbors for not clearing my walkways, and stick it up on my door.