The real world intrudes on the end of my vacation

In case you've not been paying attention, the weather forecasters are expecting an icestorm to move into the area some time today, and stay through tomorrow. It's certain enough that some schools are closing early in the afternoon. Blech. Lovely way to spend my first day back after the holiday.

Looked at the weather forecast yesterday, and then ran out to get my new work boots (which I've been putting off since the end of October). My old ones are still fairly comfy, but they're developing holes in the sides, and I need waterproof warm and dry tomorrow. Hurray for new boots.

By spent some quality time with his new tile saw last night, figuring it out and starting to cut tile for that countertop. He says it works very well, almost as fast as the commercial models he's used. So, he expects that one solid evening's work ought to see all the tile cut. I'm oggling the layout for the tile, thinking it'd make a very good quilt. Ah, wait, he's scanned that, you folks need a picture. Or maybe not, can't find the pic right now. Have to ask him what he did with it.

The cats are still pissed with us, because we treated them all for fleas again on Sunday. *sigh* This will be easier to get completely under control with Frank and his stuff out, so we can get all the carpet out of that room.

Frank hasn't been here since Satuday night. He said he'd be back Sunday or Monday; my guess is he couldn't get anyone to come "help" him pack. Ah well. He'll be out next Saturday.

Got an urge to bake yesterday afternoon, and cranked out one batch of cinnamon rolls, and a half-batch worth of garlic rolls, just to try the idea. They worked pretty well....take basic bread recipe, add garlic powder and oregano to the dough, and roll out the dough like you would for cinnamon rolls. The filling was a tablespoon of melted butter, about three tablespoons of asiago cheese (or whatever was leftover in the container), about a tablespoon of parmesan cheese, more garlic and oregano, and enough olive oil to make all that spreadable. Rub filling into dough like for cinnamon rolls, roll up, slice, place on baking sheet, let rise one more time, etc. One roll = garlic dragon breath.

( The UnSock Report (long and rambling) )

Storm report

Checking my work email this afternoon yielded an email saying that campus would be closed after 2:30 today, and all day tomorrow. So, I called in and called around until I found the shop steward near his phone. (I know these people don't work hard for a living, and they're *usually* at their desks!) The word was "stay home tomorrow". I like that word. I called By & gave him the weather reports and the news from work. He'd half plannedon trying to go in tomorrow; I talked him out of that. Got By home safe and sound around 6:30. Fixed a nice pot of potato & veggie soup, with sausages and teaon the side, and we settled in.

We lost power just after 9pm. Not a super big deal. Lit candles, turned off all the lights and stuff we could remember having on, hung heavy blankets over the windows in the bedroom to keep more of our body heat in, grabbed extra blankets for the bed. By snuggled in with the cats, I sat up near the candle and knitted on my shawl.

The power came back on about 10:15. If that's the worst that hits us, we'll count ourselves lucky. By said that our trees were droopy with ice when he got home, but not too bad yet, and there was water on the floor of the garage, but there usually is after as much rain as we've had. Checking the radar, it looks like the storm is breaking up faster than they'd expected.