SugarMaple of Sleet

After another round of snow last night, I would say we are snowed in now. The snow was heavy and wet, so every shovel full weighed a ton. It was crustily frozen onto my car like royal icing on a wedding cake. Thank goodness for our neighbor Irish, who was snowblowering his driveway when I came out to shovel ours, and come over to help out. His youngest daughter and her friend also came over, and made the snow fly around the car until they ran out of energy and had to go in the house. I'm a huge fan of "Midwestern nice!"

We exercised our old people privilege of not going out anywhere. They say there is yet another round of snow and wind on the way, but I no longer trust them. We heard from the Nipper this morning. He and Raptor arrived and checked into their hotel. The Philosopher told him they had moved the birthday party to Sunday, because that was more convenient for the Lovely Friend's grandparents. Now I'm very curious to hear if the Nipper got to go and visit today, and what they did, and how they fared in the big city. I'm restraining myself from mom-texting him until he gets home. I just had a look outside. It's snowing again, and all the pavement that was scraped bare today is gently lapped in a white coverlet again.