Surviving Snowpocalypse Part Deux: Toto's Revenge

For those of you who don't live in the Midwest, we've gotten a little bit of snow these last few days.

On Thursday we got about a foot of snow, and then today we got another foot.

Our neighbor came by today to offer to snow blow our driveway with his new snow blower.  I may or may not have answered the door with an open bottle of wine at 11:30.  It may or may not have been for the stew I was making.

After blowing our driveway, our neighbor had a little burst of energy and started plowing the street between our houses.  He gave up after about ten feet.  But darn it, if we want to drive our car to his house, we are set.

Last Night and This Morning

Last night we had our second successful book club meeting.  December's book was The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie.

Everyone liked it, though not at much as The Book Thief.  Part-Time Indian was about a Native American teenager growing up on a reservation and choosing to leave the reservation to go to a better high school.  It was partially auto-biographical, so I found it really interesting to gain some insight into a community that I'm not familiar with.  For January, we'll be reading The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan.  Feel free to join in.

And then this morning, Johnny and I woke up to this!  It's our first snow of the season that actually stuck.  This snow also pointed out that we apparently have a cat that comes to our back door at night.  Lovely.