As expected, we got the snowstorm today - not as bad as we were fearing, but it's not over yet.
Also as expected, knowing we were going to trapped indoors, Sam and I made pizza today. It is, after all, Saturday and anybody who knows us (or rather, knows Sam), snow or not, Saturday is pizza day.
Keeping with my recent trend of all photos, all of most of the time - here are said photos. Feel free to refer to them when you're ready to make your own pizza...
We're supposed to be getting a major storm tomorrow so Sam and I, like pretty much everybody else in town, headed to the grocery store.
While others wasted their time buying foolish supplies such as bottled water and milk and eggs, Sam and I used our heads and bought all the ingredients we need to make pizza (three pizzas, in fact). We'll be all set for tomorrow - as long as we don't lose our power.
Side note: I was going to wait in the car with the heat blasting away but the problem is, the fence (partly seen above) creates a blind spot between the parking lot and the exit from the school - and traffic occasionally whizzes between the two.
When Sam leaves work, he comes out of the building as if he were fired out of a cannon. He seems to have one thing on his mind - getting home. This means he's even worse than usual when it comes to remembering to stop and look for cars.
So the idea of waiting for Sam in comfort of the nice, warm car - during six degree weather - will have to wait for some other day. Hopefully.
Here, used without permission, is a photo sent to me the other evening by a friend who was kind enough to text it to me while on vacation in Aruba.
I let them know that, at the moment, it was currently twenty-seven degrees at home.
I figured if they weren't enjoying their vacation enough already, this little piece of information would help.
For a change of pace, instead of more photos, here's a music video from late last year.
Though I was never much of a Led Zeppelin fan (another one of those things I don't hate- just was never into it), I enjoy seeing (and hearing) Robert Plant, and I especially enjoy hearing him sing with Alison Krauss. There are several videos of them performing this song but I like this one best.
Ok, it's hard to top the exciting photos from the visit to the antique store, so I won't even try. Instead, here are a few random nighttime photos to help you come down off that high...
In case it's not obvious, here's a photo of a telephone pole. What's less obvious is why I took this photo in the first place. (Though, come to think of it, I guess you could say the same thing about all the photos I've been posting.) Oh, and in case you're interested, this photo was taken back on August 16th, 2019.
This photo is of the famous "City That Never Sleeps". That's right, good 'ole NYC! I took this photo on a visit to see Rachael back on August 21st, 2015. Rachael's not in this photo and neither is anything else I recognize.
Here's a more recent photo, this one taken on November 12th of 2020. This is what happens when you're trying to take photos of the Christmas lights, while driving through town and fumbling with the camera. The Christmas lights still look kind of pretty, though. So does light from my speedometer.
This one is from September 2nd, 2016. It took me a while to figure out what this one was. It looks kind of like my backyard but my backyard is so tiny, I could never get a photo with an angle like this. After much head scratching (mine), I realized, this photo was taken from my upstairs hallway window and it's a photo of one of the many backyards adjacent to my tiny backyard. This particular backyard belongs to a rental property and at the (thankfully brief) time, this rental property was occupied by a group of, shall we say, "rambunctious" college students. Those crazy rascals had a habit of having (presumably drunken) weekend bonfires. I'm pretty sure I had taken this photo in case I needed to give the insurance company an explanation as to why my house burned down.
And finally, we'll close with this photo, taken the night of November 19th, 2011. This is a photo of a crowd as it leaves the just completed college football game. You're probably saying to yourself, "You were at a football game!!??? But you hate football!!!!" Not correct. I have zero interest in football, true, but to say I hate football is a stretch. Not much of a stretch - but still, a stretch. Anyway, if you look closely, you'll see that many of those ghostly images seem to be wearing non-football type uniforms, which they are. In this case, they're marching band uniforms - which is the only reason I was there - to watch Jake back when he was in the marching band.
And that will do it for tonight. I'll let you catch your breath and I'll be back with more later. (Probably.)
You're in for a treat! Today we have a TON of photos! Sit back and enjoy! These were taken a local "antique" store I was visiting with Helaina, back on April 3rd, 2016.
As you can see, the term "antique" apparently covers any piece of junk someone is looking to get rid of, short of bringing it to the dump. My only question is/was, why did anyone buy any of this stuff in the first place?
Let me know if you see anything you're interested in. Even though this visit was close to six years ago, I'm pretty sure most of this stuff is still there.
