Good morning DeVeria

I recommend a good mystery book.

Welcome to what all the folks in places like Upstate NY, New England, Michigan, Minnesota, North and South Dakota deal with every year (and apologies to folks in states slightly south and/or west of these who also get all the snow and cold).

I those areas, you just trudge along about your daily business, knowing that sooner or later (and most likely later), it will finally cease for a few months before starting up again.

And mornin’, Ms DeVeria (I won’t say good mornin’ tho – as I’ve been there and done that) :})

Good Morning, DeVeria and Elliot.
I second the reading suggestion. I love to read and foul weather is a great excuse to put a fire in the fireplace, put up a pot of soup and read all day.

Morning DeVeria! We are getting that same snow here — 7 inches and counting in our front yard, with more pouring down as I type this. Our 13-year-old dachshund is miserable and has perched herself in front of the heater vent for the duration.

We got a new puppy for The Peanut last weekend. She’s a 12-week-old west highland white terrier (a “westie“) and it turns out she’s a bit of a snow dog. With the snow taller than she is outside, it’s been a little funny for everyone this morning.

We’ll be playing Wii games, working a puzzle (I picked up a new one in advance of this storm), playing lots of cards, building large towers with Legos and cleaning over the next few days. (When I say cleaning, I mean mostly me because that’s what I tend to do when I’m stuck in the house — clutter starts to drive me nutso.) We’ll also probably dig into The Peanut’s art supplies and do a collage with magazine pictures or make an illustrated book or something. And movies. Lots and lots of movies.

Hang in there. And think Spring. I’ll also be paging through all my seed catalogs and gardening books as I stare at my bird feeders. Good thing I filled them yesterday before the snow started flying…

I started re-reading the Sherlock Holmes mysteries just in the last week. Something about winter makes mysteries more fun, I think, too.

G’morning Ellie…now is the time that I wish I had bought a kindle.

And that is exactly why I don’t live in any of those places!

got at least a foot here, still snowing but not heavily.
A wet snow that was sticking to the wires but no power outages.

I have kitty litter this time so I’m prepared, one of my cats won’t go out if the snow is deeper than three inches.

Good morning Christy! Good to hear from you. I was just thinking of all the possible things I could do today…we’ll see!

oh my favorites. I was thinking Hound of the Baskervilles when I wrote that! I have a set of Holmes books pre-censorship, so at the end, after the case is solved he gets out the cocaine.

I said “Black and Gold to da Superbowl. . .Who Dat! Got to make shrimp ala creole, red beans and rice, my famous “turkey football” a variation of Julia’s “Chicken Melon”. To top it off our guests couldn’t care less about the game!
laissez bon ton roulet

Been missin ya Red!

Morning, DeVeria, Elliott, dakine, demi and Christy (such a treat to “see” you, Christy!)

I second the recommendation for reading a good mystery. Even one you’ve read several times can still be good entertainment to take your mind off the slow passage of time. Another thing I would recommend, even if you’re not a sports fan, is that the trash talk threads over at Emptywheel’s are very entertaining each week-end and tomorrow’s is likely to be especially fun since the Superbowl is tomorrow evening. You don’t even have to be watching the game to enjoy the banter.

I’m afraid I can’t comment on the snow, since my primary criterion for where to live is somewhere south of the southernmost “Bridge Ices Before Road” sign. That’s working out just fine for me.

That’s the one highlight to the weekend…the SuperBowl! I can’t get to any parties, but gonna have a little one right here.

Sometimes ya go where life leads you which is how I wound up in some of those areas for a few years. And that’s when you learn “Well, we got 10 inches of snow last night but the folks 40 miles north got 2 1/2 feet so it’s not so bad.”

And if you live in the high snow areas, you get to feel superior to the folks further south rushing to the grocery store to stock up on everything when the storm is supposed to dump a few inches because that’s just the normal, daily snowfall in some of these places.

(The worst storm I ever experienced was the day we got a blizzard in Rome, NY that dumped 2 feet in less than 12 hours. At the height of the storm in the middle of the day, it was falling 5 inches an hour)

Morning, Raven. I’ll be pulling for the Saints even though I picked the Colts back when the playoffs started. Heart vs. brain and all that.

I’d like to see the Saints win for the sake of NO but the Colts are a machine.

G’morning Jim…I have to find out where that sign is. After this winter, I’ve about had it with DC. I’ll be looking at the game tomorrow so I’ll have to make sure I have my laptop with me.

Great minds!

This would be a good time to take pictures at the Wall.

Wow, I can’t even imagine. This is way too much for me. The way it looks outside, my car won’t be moving for a week!

Morning, everyone. For you guys in the MidAtlantic getting hammered yesterday and today, you have our sympathies. Mostly because you guys are not set up to deal with it in terms of plowing, etc. My sister is in Vienna, VA and send me a photo from her cell phone. They are going to be digging out for days and days. And this is heavy snow, so shoveling is going to be arduous. As someone who has thrown her back out (along with throwing the snow), I’d advise not bothering until the snow has stopped and then doing it in little chunks. It’s not going anywhere.

Yeah, Saints here too

16 inches and still going strong

Oh, dakine – I think I remember that – I was in college up there then and the whole county just shut down. DOT could not keep up so they gave up.

We were at Smith Mountain Lake for xmas, the wek before there were 1000 people stranded between Blacksburg and Roanoke.

67? I was at Ft Knox and we was buried for a week!

Oh, I won’t be shovelling. I’ll catch someone going from door to door or call someone to come dig us out. It’s really unreal now.

In parts of Delaware they called the plows back in, not even safe to run the huge plows. It sure is an upside down winter this year.

Also, it feels like a big pot of chili sort of day here today. Which will translate well to nachos for Sunday. *g*

*waves to everyone*

My stars! Look who’s here!
No snow where I live, but we’ve got thunder and lightening. The new pup doesn’t like the thunder at all. His eyes go so big and he tilted his head in that cute puppy way, then jumped up onto my lap.
Christy, my youngest spent some of his xmas money on the complete Sherlock Holmes. Good kid.

Heh. I thawed some frozen left-over chili for dinner last night. And there is just enough left for nachos tomorrow. Thanks for the reminder.

I heard there is a hurricane force wind warning for the delmarva peninsula.

Holy mackeral

Wow! I never heard of the place! What an educational joynt this it!

My food sunday diary last week has some cool Superbowl recipes if anyone is interested. And, yes I gave a hat tip to Christy who has led that discussion in the past.

Elkridge, Maryland, two miles west of Baltimore, hit by 30.2 inches of snow with more falling at rate of 3-4 inches – NBC News

It’s almost as exotic as Hawaii.

I’ll have to check it out…

Yes, it is something out there. Update…18 inches and still falling. I’m looking at NBC news too!

Glad I’m just in DC and not in MD!

morning, all you winter sufferers. No, not trying to rub it in, we have a warning of black ice several days this week. My son got himself snowed in in Baltimore, where his SO lives, they walked home from dinner and found several people out sculpting people in snow on the benches, had a great time. I always walked the dogs when we had snow, had one that played porpoise, leapt thru it.

G’morning Ruth. If my SO was here, it wouldn’t be quite as bad.

Back from making pickled eggs. Will be good enough to eat in a couple of hours, but best after a day or two.

*waving to Christy and her dogs and her Peanut and the rest of her family*

This was in March ’94. At the time, the local cable system picked up a couple of TV stations from Boston and their weather forecaster was showing a storm coming up the coast. What all the computer models missed was the worst part of the storm spun off the original and came up through the center of NY so that Binghamton, and I think Ithaca and some other cities along with Rome all got 2 to 4 feet when the forecast was 2 to 4 inches.

The next day, it was either “boy did we miss that one” or “2 to 4, just like we predicted (who cares if it was feet instead of inches)”

That winter of ’93-’94 set a record for snow in Rome with 190 inches total. The previous four years I’d lived there had averaged 120 plus inches per year.

Are you watching cspan? Warning, if not, you prolly don’t want to turn it on.

I had to flip it off. Watching L&O rerun, my guilty pleasure.

OH, yes, I remember that one also – we had commercial buildings that ended up with collapsed roofs. People did really stupid stuff like going up on their roofs to shovel, only to fall off. Very dangerous. That other storm I was talking about was in January 1971. We had 48″ of snow in Hamilton over about 18 hours. The whole place shut down completely.

(You can set your upstate NY bonafides by the classic storms you experienced while living there) :})

(Edit: plus knowing where the Tug HIll Plateau is)

This was a good result, as the last big snow he stayed in D.C. and even the farmer’s market was closed. Last time he makes that mistake.

I grew up in Buffalo, before global warming.

Mornin all. Good to hear from you Christy. Hope all is well with you and yours. Bitter cold and sunny in Michigan but no real snow accumulation from the current storm. License plates here once called out “Winter Wonderland.” People in the snowbelt seem to have a greater appreciation for spring. Perhaps with global climate change DC, Virginia is now in the snowbelt as well.

Wooooo, I have a whole flock of goldfinches on the feeder at the moment. Along with a Carolina wren pair. So glad I filled it to the brim yesterday.

Madame Chaing Kai-shek died in 2003 at the age of 106. Wow.

Pickled eggs. A delicacy at many a rural watering hole. A big glass vat sitting on the bar right next to the pickled bologna.

Good Morning everyone. Glad to see you here, Christy.
I need to check out that recipe blog. Crowd coming over tomorrow, and like most super bowl parties, the game isn’t the important part.

Long family tradition. But not the pickled bologna. As I live alone, I make them rarely as eating a dozen eggs in a week or less is not something to be repeated often.

Demi, where’s that diary? The Seminal?

Yes. Last Sunday. Superbowl Eats and Controversial Ads.

that is so unbelievable

I wouldn’t mind trying those…

Mornin’ all, good to “see” Christy, and congrats on the newest ReddHedd household member. My two spaniels are enjoying the snow mountain that was our front yard, courtesy the driveway snowplower.

Bowing in deference to the Mid-Atl. today…your snowfall’s definitely worse than the foot or so we’re expecting this weekend. Again….

We did a lot of shovelling snow last year and then recovering from the effort since it lasted a month (Northeast Washington State). Got to over three feet of compacted snow on the roof. This year there has been only a tiny bit of snow and spring is already here. All our snow is going your way, sorry about that.

You just do what you always do, but add in snow shoveling. Everyone has 4-wheel drive so getting around isn’t a problem.

Good mornin’ all! What to do with cabin fever? Don’t forget to smell the roses… er, snow! Seriously. Bundle up and clear a space to sit for a few minutes. Take in the silence….. it’s amazing how the snow muffles all the usual people noises. It’s downright zen. Feel the cold. Is it cold enough that you can feel your nose hairs freezing? Take that in and appreciate it for a moment. Amazing how the snow washes the air into a crisp clean cocktail. Watch how it piles up, turning familiar places into an alien landscape, softening hard edges, rounding and molding into new, fascinating curves, eliminating the sharp and angular. When you’re good and cold, go back inside, fix yourself a cuppa (hot toddy is good, altho maybe it’s a little early-but what the hell, it’s a snow day right?) Pull up a chair and snuggle down with your warm sox, watch the storm and contemplate your inner navel.
Snow… it’s a grace and a wonder, don’t forget to appreciate what you’ve been given.
It’s foggy here in Denver this morning. No snow except the hard, crusty stuff thats lingering on the north sides of fences and houses.

Morning all.
Dealing with snow is easy.
1. Pretend you are a child and enjoy it.
2. Read
3. Cook
4. Shovel out the drive and walks
5. Go snowshoeing
6. Go skiing
7. Go sledding
8. Make a snowman
9. Warm up in front of a fire (provided you have a fireplace)
10. Sleep

Can of sliced beets, dozen medium hard boiled eggs, bay leaf, salt peppercorns, garlic, red wine vinegar, red wine to taste.

Oh, and don’t forget to make cookies!

I am going to relish the Spring this year!

Difference between a snowman & snowwoman? Snowballs.

I told my SO this is the last winter with no truck! All I can do is keep my mustang parked…it doesn’t do well in the rain, much less the snow.

Snowtits!

eCAHNomics, growing up in San Diego, I never heard that one. You have me smiling.

And a good morning to Christy. Glad to see you are enjoying your new furball.

One of the things on my list is to go upstairs in the living room and look out at the patio while reading and listening to my music. I love the way it looks, just don’t like being stuck.

that reminds of of these classics, Calvin and Hobbes’ snowmen in real life.

you and me both!

G’morning. Thanks…I’m going to take you up on a few of these.

The trick is to BE THERE. You’re not stuck if you want to be there, are ya?

Once I found an old discarded toilet and built a snowman sitting on it.
Made it to the newspaper.

lol!

thanks.

Hi Christy!

Made my heart skip a beat to see your comment!
Oh, how we miss you!
Keep checking in here at FDL — makes my day!

Ooops. Accidentally put this over at EW and meant it to be here:

Okay, I’ve just got to share this. My favorite new possession is my new wireless indoor-outdoor thermometer. I can’t believe something this technologically cool is so inexpensive. It gives the outside high and low, inside high and low and the clock talks to the atomic clock radio signal. I put the outside sending unit on the edge of the barn, so now I have a very accurate reading of what the temperature is as I decide when it’s time to put blankets on the horses in the evening or take them off in the morning. I had relied on the WeatherChannel’s desktop icon for local temp in my taskbar, but I find that temperature reading has a timelag.

With an interest in a weather toy, does that make me geezer or a geek? Maybe a geekzer?

Thanks for that. Love gallows humor.

A lot of folks are unaware that both Syracuse and Rochester average a bit more snow most years than Buffalo. They just know that Buffalo gets the big storms that make the news every few years.

That would be funny.

All wheel drive cars do well in the snow. I drive a 2 wheel drive PU that isn’t good at all unless I put some weight in back. I wonder if that mid-Atlantic storm is moisture we might normally get here in Michigan because we’re waaay under average it seems.

But that’s part of the deal. And even though we got all the snow in Rome, it was as much as ten times deeper if you lived 40 or so miles north (the Tug Hill Plateau as mentioned earlier)

I’ve had one of those for a couple of decades. Agree that they’re kewl.

Stuck means the car is unable to move in the snow. Snowbound means you can’t get out of the house. Two very different experiences. Being snowbound means people are forced to walk which can actually bring people together. Remember snowbound days in East Lansing. MSU, was closed for the first time in it’s history. Students were jumping out of 2nd story dorm windows into the drifts.

Suppose a contemporary take would have a snowman being waterboarded.

I don’t mind being here, just want to be able to get out…lol

WOW

For a snowman, waterboarding would be a death sentence.

They all stop the same (or not) skill is the most important factor.
Ever notice who winds up in the ditch. It is those four wheelers who think they are invinceable

Last week my brother had to drive me to the funeral in his pick up truck. We loaded it down with tires in the back and that did make it better.

I’m both!

Very tardy good morning to my FDL friends. Here in NW Indiana we got almost no snow (3 inches on the ground from the past week) but my daughter in Indy says they got a bunch.

Headed out to the Farmer’s Market for breakfast and to pick up a few things. Be safe, everyone!

dakine, are you from Rome?

Yeah, this is an El Nino weather pattern — the jet stream has moved farther south of us, taking all the snow with it.

I have been laughing for the last 24 hours about it, especially since we got record snow last year. Seems like I spent most of December 08-January 09 in my driveway, shoveling. This year I have a new snowblower and no snow. ;-)

Good morning DeVeria. Good morning pups, Christy.

It has to be quite a shock to get that much snow at those latitudes. Snow is part of the routine in beautiful Montreal.

A storm means that every hour, I’ll go out to shovel. Shoveling more than four inches is just too bloody hard. I’ll go to bed around midnight, but I’ll get up at three to clear the precipitation.

I’ll often get a book, start reading while looking at that magnificent sight.

Then I’ll get my snowshoes, my cam, and I’ll capture the transforming terrain, and commiserate with my neighbors.

Then comes the hot chocolate…

Then comes the hot chocolate…

the one thing I forgot at the store, wishing I had a warm cuppa right now.

What a great idea.

How to keep an adult busy during a snow storm:

– Find a bunch of music for free on the internet and burn it to your MP3. Did you know Amazon.com has free music? I now have a perky selection of Brazilian tunes from them that make me feel all toasty inside. (If you have a suggestion about free music which can be downloaded safely, give a shout out and share here.)

– Go through your photo albums, either the printed ones or the ones on your computer and start labeling and organizing them. Have a good laugh over those favorite pics and turn them into a personal slide show to share next time you get together with family and friends.

– Clean out one closet or one dresser/bureau. Just one. No more. When the streets are clear, take what you don’t need to local charity.

– Start a list of spring projects, stuff you can’t do now but would like to do as soon as the weather breaks for the season. In my case, I have a mess of gardening and yard work projects, some of which require planning. Now’s a good time.

Anybody else got other suggestions?

You know…i have a new flipcam, maybe I’ll venture out later on.

Here along the So. Jersey coast its a blizzard at the moment with 20+ inches on the ground already and more piling on by the minute. Its bad but I’ve seen it far worse then this here. back in the winter of 1978 we had a storm that shut down the entire region. I was trapped at work that storm and had to walk home 5 miles in the snow the next day. Today, I intend to read , eat and paint. I have enough firewood for two days in here if the power goes off and food and water for weeks.

So my hometown and the surrounding environs are snow covered. Reminds me of walking from my home near Mt Vernon to National (now RayGuns) Airport on Inauguration Day 1961 in the deepest snow I’d ever seen.

It was probably you buying the snowblower that did it!

Now those are very good ideas! Thanks Rayne!

I am praying that we keep power. A lot of people have lost power, but we are still good. We have firewood and plenty of food, so I guess we’ll be okay either way.

Got cocoa in the cupboard, Elliott? A couple times a year I break down and make the real thing, a pot of hot cocoa — mostly so the kids have an idea that stuff like cocoa didn’t used to come in prepared packets.

I even add a couple drops of real vanilla to the pot. Yum.

This week we made it from scratch because the microwave broke down. We could have made it with the electric kettle or boiled water on the stove, but we used the opportunity to do it all the way, with milk warmed over the stove, Dutch processed cocoa, a pinch of salt, sugar and vanilla. Like being transported back to my mom’s kitchen when I was little.

Whoa, that’s a flash from the past. I’d forgotten all about that. Hot cocoa was a project when I was a kid.

Yeah, funny how that works, eh? Best birthday present I’ve gotten in a while, a magic keep-snow-away machine.

Better yet, the few times we’ve had a good snow during the last month, hubby has jumped up and used the snowblower — what man can resist a squeaky new gas-powered machine?

;-)

No cocoa :(

A few pics from one of the small storms last year.

and always ending up with a burned tongue

what man can resist a squeaky new gas-powered machine?

This one.

Oh dear. Oh. That is bad news.

Any old chocolate bars? Could do it as they do in Mexico. Grate the chocolate and slowly stir into steaming hot milk.

I have little hope for that, though, if your house is like mine. Chocolate rarely survives long except for my emergency stash well-hidden in the freezer. [Note to self: stock cocoa and chocolate next trip to store...]

My husband and I are trying to figure out where all this snow is. what state are you in? Even for MN, snow like that is unusual.

Ya know, the cans of cocoa look pretty much the same as they did 50+ years ago.

Got cocoa in the cupboard,

The only way to go.

pretty,
that could be here today.

Losing power would sure change things. At least you wouldn’t have to worry about food in the fridge.

I wish I had remembered to get some — could have whipped up some brownies to go with it.

oh wow…sounds delicious!

it’s an upside down winter.

looks so very familiar…

I suspect it would be hard to keep any with kids around.

I’m in DC…almost 20 inches and still snowing

When I was a kid we had Ovaltine

Yeah, like very large mice with opposable thumbs, nibbling away at everything.

And when they are cooped up and bored? Look out. They’re more like locusts.

They’re also at that age where they need the calories. My son is preparing for one of the biggest growth spurts he’ll have. Means he’s eating anything which isn’t nailed down. [sigh]

Me too. Now there’s more sugar in it than anything else.

Nestlé’s Quik here

glad I don’t have your food bill!

Chocolate syrup, warm milk and some marshmallows. Speaking strictly from memory, I’m sticking with coffee.

I don’t know the brand name of mine, but it has marshmallows! The fake kind, unfortunately. Maybe after my experience outside with the flipcam.

Mary Jane just dug a path through the back yard for our furry friends who found the drifts too daunting. Couldn’t have a 3 day doggie bladder shutdown.

It’s deep out there!

We’re gonna make a fire in the fireplace and knit. DeVeria just started knitting this week when we were watching movies and she’s a natural.

Wow, everyone’s here. There’s the answer for what you do during a snowstorm….stay at FDL.

I was looking at Ovaltine the last time I shopped for groceries. I remember I used to love it, but couldn’t quite remember what it tasted like. Came home with malted milk instead. I’ve got milk and cocoa though, and this thread has put me in the mood for it.

I’m going to have to come find that path when I use my flipcam! I’m still getting the hang at knitting. They can knit and watch tv…I haven’t gotten that good yet.

I’ve got cocoa.. But it’s just foggy here.

Then you know what you’re going to have to do! I think at this point, we all will have some hot cocoa today.

aww, don’t let that stop you :)

You can still join the rest of us with the cocoa. I wish I could email you some of this snow!

Funny, I had picked up a very special dark kind. Now I know why! sympathetic freezies. Must make cocoa later, indeed.

I’m sure you’d like to email all of it somewhere. Wish I could help.

mMMm!!

I will vicariously relish its deliciousness

I snagged this from the WaPo slideshow.

Bee-ewe-tee-full

My photinia in a snowstorm we had on xmas a few years back, I tho’t it would be killed for sure, and no! it sprang right back.
http://picasaweb.google.com/RCalvo8/CabDrollery?authkey=Gv1sRgCKXljKDIyO37ywE#5197485823155123058

absolutely! I’m still imagining Christy’s flock of goldfinches.

Me likee photo 245

No but I lived there for almost six years in the early/mid ’90s (as well as a couple of times through Albany)

Fluffy keeping his nose warm.

lucky for you it did pop back, that’s hefty coating of snow.

Thanks for good conversation; okay, time to get started doing things. Hope you visit my post over at the seminal in 15 minutes, about ‘provocative weakness doctrine’

They keep glossy leaves all year, and I was worried, but it bore up and has kept growing, no longer a bush but a real tree.

Mary Glenny on the Women’s Show is hammering the Stupor Bowl, with the Tebow ad the main attraction.

do enjoy it. you have a winter wonderland. I did just look at the weather reports and you folks are breaking records. Inhofe still won’t get it. they are saying this is proof of no warming.

yes, we are and its still going strong

Good Morning DeVeria, I commiserate with your distress. I was supposed to leave DC on Friday for a weekend at home, in Oregon. Sadly I’m in my “inside the Beltway”, hotel watching snow come down, instead of rain. I’m told this is unusual (unprecedented) for this area but I’m convinced that its the East Coast, in general, that’s out to get me. The last time I was sent out here last summer and I experienced canceled and delayed flights in both directions (thunderstorms), at least this time I’m not trying to sleep in the airport. Oh well this too shall pass, and it is pretty snow ;-)

If anyone’s still here, I’m watching the Weather Channel and feeling for all the snowed-in Firepups.
Lots of good ideas here for what to do. I may just whip up some hot chocolate myself (always from scratch, cocoa, milk, sugar, cinnamon – I’ve gotten used to Mexican style) in sympathy.

We’ve just come out of nearly 3 weeks of cold rain here in So Central Texas. Temps as low as mid-30′s in the daytime – yeah, I know, compared to Rome NY not cold, but. Today it’s to be around 60.

That list of stuff to do in snowy weather is one of the reasons I miss it. I kept trying to explain to my native Texan hubby that drinking hot chocolate or tea is just so much better when looking out the frosted window at falling snow, feeling extra toasty cozy ’cause you’re inside instead of outside. (especially when you have been outside, shoveling, making snowmen, or having snowball fights). I enjoy outdoor “sports” more in winter than summer.
I was pleased to be in Baltimore during the pre-Christmas “big snow,” which now is being pushed down the list of “most snows” for Balto. Unfortunately, being in my Mom’s apt., I couldn’t do most of these as the equipment (like needles) was all at home.
But I could go outside and tramp through the snow, and I did. Texture wasn’t right for snowballs; didn’t pack well. But I had a great time (knowing I didn’t have to get to work through it helped, too).

I have an 18 year old son, skinny as a rail, who can eat a loaf of bread walking from one end of the house to the other, and it’s a very small house. I feel like I’m stoking a coal furnace, constantly making food for him.

A few years ago, my godfather’s widow thanked me for showing her the teenage male appetite. We had visited them when I was 15 (and her young son was then six).

She appreciated seeing for herself the ability to consume mass quantities of food with no visible impact or weight gain.

It’s amazing, isn’t it? I remember the day it dawned on my spouse and me that my stepson (now 29 years old) that he was becoming a teenager. He always ate like a bird until one particular weekend when he ate ten tacos inside 20 minutes. He would have eaten more if we’d had more.

From then on, for the next four years, there just wasn’t enough food to keep him full. He was never heavy, either, actually underweight for his age.

My twelve-year-old is built just like him and the teen switch is starting to flip. I’m trying to enjoy what’s left of the little baby in him before it evaporates in a matter of months — like when his still-cherubic face suddenly sprouts whiskers. [sigh]