A Snowy day

Written on Saturday 1/4/13


Mr Ranch and the kids were going to get up early this morning and go up to Vail and ski, but when he checked his road alerts at 5 am it said that conditions were deteriorating and that I-70 was closed west of Vail.  He didn't really want to spend a huge amount of travel time in the car with a very sleepy Girl and a slightly grumpy Boy...so they all slept in.  Needless to say, this has derailed my plans to "do nothing" and "maybe go to Savers".  I did do a couple more loads of laundry, as planned, then loaded, ran, unloaded (and repeat) the dishwasher a couple times.

The predicted "dusting" of snow appears to be about 8 inches, the last time I looked.  The kids have been out, not to the sledding hill yet, because they can still see grass on it, but to the backyard and to the park across the street.
And the dogs have been out...and in...and out...and in...







The Boy entertained himself for about an hour just in the backyard.
 At one point Mr. Ranch looked out and wondered where The Boy had gone--turns out he was hiding behind that pile of debris in the side yard.

Other than playing in the snow, we introduced The Boy to "Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail".  He was slightly entertained--we were glad that he seems to have missed a couple lines that we'd forgotten about.

The Girl has spent the day napping, except for a few minutes of playing with her brother in the yard.  Apparently New Year's followed by a "sleep" over has worn her out...as Mr Ranch put it, "skiing with an exhausted pre-teen might not have been much fun after all".



Alice the Cat, of course, is keeping busy...after stalking Tony the Fish for a couple hours she swarmed up the curtains (leaving another trail of puncture marks) to hang out and stalk all of us.

I should work on taking down the rest of the Christmas decorations...but since Christmas isn't over until Monday, there's no hurry, right?  I did take the ornaments off the tree--so really that only leaves some lights, the stockings and holders, and the nativity sets (and the nativity sets actually all live inside, so they are fairly easy to put away, not too much box schlepping...)

The Boy and I also made cookies (don't tell anyone, but they were scoop from the tub and bake) and cornbread muffins to go with Mr. Ranch's chili contribution.

It looks like a I have a few more minutes until dinner, so I think I will return to my Elizabeth Peter's  fiesta (I'm up to #4, Lion in the Valley).  Stay warm, especially all of you headed back to school Monday!