Fickled Friday

What a day! I got up about 0800 and could have slept for a couple more hours, between the wind and rain last night and just being really tired from running around yesterday. Anyway, the sun was shining and it was nice and warm out. When I got downstairs, I let Reggie out and looked around the front yard to see what kind of damage was done by the winds last night.

There were many branches down, nothing over an inch in diameter and there were many fir cones all over. I went back inside and started my morning computer stuff. After that, Kathleen had started shredding potatoes for hash browns and dividing eggs for breakfast. She gets the yokes and I get the whites with cheese. I poured myself a cup of coffee and sat down to breakfast.

Before I had a chance to start eating the mail came so I went out and brought it in. Some of Kathleen's medications arrived and other than a couple wood working catalogs the rest was junk, so I deposited it into the recycling bag and than had breakfast.

The sun was shining so brightly it looked like it was going to be a really beautiful day, boy did that ever change in a hurry. I went outside to pick up some of the larger branches and while I was out there I noticed that the shy was starting to get dark and before I knew it, it had started to hail. I stayed outside working for a little while longer, until it started to come down really hard.

It did not hail very long, just long enough to leave a layer of hail on the lawn. Since I had not read the paper yet, I decided that I would do that and see if the sun would come back out.

Kathleen left to her doctor's appointment and I went into the basement to fix the water exhaust for the furnace. These were the parts that I bought the other day at the True Value. It only took a couple minutes and I was done.

Since it was not raining or anything at the time I decided to go back outside and pick up some more of the fallen branches. I was working under the fir trees most of the time and did not notice it starting to snow, just little flakes at first and then they got bigger and started coming down faster.

Again I game in and went inside when I got into the kitchen the phone rang; it was Kathleen wanting to know if it were snowing here. I told her that it was. Just after I got off the phone it really started snowing, almost blizzard like, so I called Kathleen back and told her that the snow was starting to build up and sticking to the ground.

As soon as I got off the phone with Kathleen, Andrea called to see what the weather was like here so she could make a decision about work. By this time the snowing had slowed down and the streets were pretty clear, but the temperature was starting to go down.

When I let Reggie out about 1630 I could really feel the coolness of the outside, it was really pleasant earlier in the day, but now it was starting to feel like winter. Kathleen was home and starting to make dinner, I had taken some of the meatloaf out of the freezer earlier and she was making mashed potatoes and peas to go with the meatloaf.

After dinner, I put the leftovers into the refrigerator and washed the dished that needed to be hand washed. Kathleen has gone upstairs and I am down here doing my blog. I do not think that tonight will be as billowy as last night was, but I think that I will be going to bed early tonight. So good night!