The snow is expected to stop midafternoon, we got about 18” out there and I don’t expect much more. It’s not too heavy which is nice, and I am full of gratitude and triumph at freeing my garage door. I’ve been chipping at the ice and sweeping every last grain of snow away and finally the concrete floor let go of the gasket and the door rolled up, hooray!
I got the rest of the shoveling done while the flakes were getting very big and the sky was lightening. I noticed last night, actually about 4am, that although it was overcast and snowing I could see throughout the interior of the house. I do keep a light on in the living room all night and it could be it was reflecting off the snow but from my bed I could see to the opposite side of the house and it was as well-lit as the side with the light. Then I thought it must be the moon, however the moon is waning and will be completely dark in 2 days so that’s not it. Dawn is 5:40 so perhaps it was predawn. I’ll have to see what it looks like tonight at 7pm and later.
I’m grateful for the equinox coming soon.
I’m grateful the snow falling off the roof didn’t block the exhaust pipe for the furnace and that the roof above it is empty, so no worries until the next snow fall. Until now it hasn’t been close, but one big snow dump off the roof and it could get blocked. I tried to dig out from under the end of the pipe but it blows hot air and melts the snow nearby so it’s all ice. It’s certainly not energy efficient to blow heat out the exhaust, but snow might be the reason for it.
I’m grateful I seem to be closing in on a computer problem that has plagued me for about a year, several times a day the internet drops me for a few minutes. It’s very frustrating when I’m trying to do internet banking, for example or other important stuff as well as interrupting me at the most emotionally tense points in movies I stream. This is a lemons ➛lemonade thing, I’ve been trying to squish this thing to get some juice out for ages. My internet company finally figured out it was something with iCloud and I finally convinced the Apple people it really is. So I willingly and helplessly followed his direction and he, in order to help me get rid of this problem, essentially get rid of the program without having it take everything it ever saw. Bottom line, at least at this point, is that I am now downloading a whole bunch of stuff I seem to have put into iCloud that will stay on my computer and the process is taking so much bandwidth that I am unable to access the internet. And from the amount left and the speed with which it’s going, it won’t finish until tomorrow, early morning, I hope. That’s the lemon. And a bit of anxiety, I have to use the internet for work tomorrow morning by 10AM. But if it finally fixes it all, that will be sweet.
I took some pix I hope to include but I don’t know what capabilities I will have and when.
I’m grateful I thought to be sure I’d have a computer to use at work since I usually use my own which is going to have to stay home until iCloud finishes downloading.
I’m grateful I have some books downloaded so I can continue reading while I wait for the internet to become available tomorrow. Also that I can still use Word to write in my journal, even if I can’t save it. It gives me a good reason to be grateful for the internet when I have it, which is usually. For some reason email comes through at times, I don’t think I can get pictures through, so I’ll wait and send the two days together with pictures
I’m grateful that this time is given to me and I will use part of it to write to Philip