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"Blizzard"
Jan. 16th, 2014 06:59 pmWe had a "blizzard" today. Yesterday broke the daily record for high temperatures--39 degrees--but it was actually super cold all day, and it didn't get warm until after the sun went down. Which is so crazy. Where does it get warmer the darker it gets??
Anyway, we also had this freakishly scary blizzard predicted. So we got calls from the school and university, saying everything was closed from 11 pm yesterday to 11 pm today. Snow! High winds! Total whiteout! Possibility of power outages! And around midnight it did start getting windy. It sounded like a train every time I woke up. They closed several highways and strongly recommended staying off the freeways. But when we woke up--hardly any snow, just wind. Well, we had 50-60 mph winds all the time in Idaho without undue panic. So...we all just sort of hung out at home and read books? Meanwhile, the kids have now missed two days of school related to winter, and several half days related to heat. Who knows when they'll get out for the year at this rate...
I finished a round of revisions and I'm not sure what to do next to make it better, so I've been critiquing books for other people. I always learn stuff that way, and since I'm stuck on my own, these came at a good time. Meanwhile, my 5YO who can only read a few sight words is getting frustrated at all the rest of us always writing things. So in the past week, he's written an episode of Ghostbusters (cartoon) and also an illustrated article about the life cycle of butterflies. "Because everyone else is writing," he says. Cool, but I do wish it was warm enough to go outside more often!
Anyway, we also had this freakishly scary blizzard predicted. So we got calls from the school and university, saying everything was closed from 11 pm yesterday to 11 pm today. Snow! High winds! Total whiteout! Possibility of power outages! And around midnight it did start getting windy. It sounded like a train every time I woke up. They closed several highways and strongly recommended staying off the freeways. But when we woke up--hardly any snow, just wind. Well, we had 50-60 mph winds all the time in Idaho without undue panic. So...we all just sort of hung out at home and read books? Meanwhile, the kids have now missed two days of school related to winter, and several half days related to heat. Who knows when they'll get out for the year at this rate...
I finished a round of revisions and I'm not sure what to do next to make it better, so I've been critiquing books for other people. I always learn stuff that way, and since I'm stuck on my own, these came at a good time. Meanwhile, my 5YO who can only read a few sight words is getting frustrated at all the rest of us always writing things. So in the past week, he's written an episode of Ghostbusters (cartoon) and also an illustrated article about the life cycle of butterflies. "Because everyone else is writing," he says. Cool, but I do wish it was warm enough to go outside more often!
