Yeah, Right

We will only get a dusting.

 

Right.

 

We'll be on the edge of the snow and probably won't see much, if any.

 

Right.

 

It will mostly go south of us and we won't get much, maybe not any at all.

 

Somebody tell the weatherman to look out his window!

This isn't our pictures, it's off of one of the Tulsa station websites.  But we've gotten at least that much snow ourselves, maybe more.  This picture was taken today, I'm not sure what part of Tulsa it was in but it's a perfect example of the skill (or lack thereof) of some of the forecasters.

 

But, at least it's a day when we can stay home.

 

Sort of, anyway.  We rented a movie yesterday and it was due back today.  Otter wanted to go to Target, we were going to get both stops done in one trip.  I woke up with a bad sinus headache this morning and we knew that there was at least some weather on the way so we decided to skip church.  About 8:00, I got Otter up and after she had breakfast we were going to see what the tv showed as far as timing for the snow.  It was supposed to be at least an hour later, or maybe more.  At 8:20, the snow was starting to fall and it was quickly beginning to stick to the streets.  That's a bad sign, it means that the ground is cold enough to keep the snow and any ice around for a while.

 

We got busy, got coats-hats-scarves-gloves and shoes on, then we headed to the video store.  Froggy, the first picture we texted you was from the car window (Otter took it and did the texting!) just after we'd left the house.  We dropped the movie off and decided that Target was not going to happen today.  We had to drive by Wallyworld on the way home, both are within a 3-minute drive from the house.  After we left the video store parking lot, the snow was getting heavier and really beginning to cover the street.  We went ahead and stopped at Wally, we got a close parking spot and got inside the store as quickly as we could.  We were probably in there less than 15 minutes and by the time we got out the car was somewhat covered.  We bought 40 pounds of birdseed while we were there, along with two or three other things.  We were in the minority, there were a lot of people there and more arriving - and they were obviously doing the BMT thing and stocking up.  Anyway, we put our stuff in the trunk and headed home.  We got home easily, but the road was beginning to show signs of getting slick and covered.  Froggy, the second picture we texted you was taken from the car on the way home from Wallyworld and was maybe 20 minutes or less after the first picture.  Just in the 3-mile drive from Wallyworld, it didn't look like we'd ever even opened the trunk by the time we pulled into the driveway!  It continued to snow until after noon.  I think it's finally stopped coming down, but it's really thick on the ground.

 

Right now, we're just going to play it by ear as far as tomorrow morning and work.  There could be some street clearing, so who knows.  Otter is scheduled to work from noon to 5 tomorrow, if we are home then Bill will get her there.  Because of the fact that we will be below freezing for the next several days and have another weather front on the way, the El Camino will stay parked in the driveway so Otter will have to depend on us for transportation.  I don't think she minds very much, she really does not want to drive in this stuff.  I don't blame her!

 

I filled up three birdfeeders yesterday and they were emptied by this morning.  Otter brought them in for me and they got a refill.  We've had a constant stream of birds since we got up.  There was a huge dove, several red-wing blackbirds, a male cardinal and two females.  Along with about a billion starlings and the usual crew of sparrows.  Yesterday we saw the woodpecker several times.

 

The leafless trees look like they've grown strange feathered fruit, the limbs are loaded with fluffy birdies.

By the way, we are thinking that Baked Groundhog would make a good meal today.

 

I found the next picture online and just thought it was cute.  Except that the sheep costume the dog is wearing is not knitted.  IT'S CROCHET!

We got paid for our first month's sales at the booth.  It was more than we paid for booth rent, but the booth rent was for a partial month and not as much as a full month's rent.  I took a bunch of stuff up there yesterday.  Hopefully, some of it will sell.  And it would be really nice if a pachinko machine or two (or four!) would sell.

 

The movie we rented yesterday was Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2.  When Otter was little, we read the book the first one was based on may times.  The movie was not really anywhere near the book beyond the title.  The first movie was cute, it grew on us after a while and we do like it.  It's just not like the book at all.  The second movie was not too good.  We didn't expect it to be, and we weren't surprised.  Thor 2 comes out in a few weeks, Otter saw it in the theater but Bill and I didn't.  The Riddick movie has been out for a few weeks, that is probably the one that Bill will want to get next weekend when it's his turn to pick.

 

We are not sports fans, not by a long shot.  Sometimes, we'll watch the superbowl or at least part of it.  Not often, just once in a while.  We always watch the commercials, they are released online the next day.  Some of them are out early this year.  We've seen a couple of them.  Our favorite so far is the Cheerios commercial - the sequel to the one that got all the stupid complaints last year.  The Cheerios commercial (the first one) is charming, the little girl is just absolutely adorable and reminds us a lot of Otter - especially in the fact that she puts the cereal on her dad's chest because mom told her it is good for his heart.  Otter would have done something like that when she was little.  We never could see what was so bad about it, it doesn't matter at all if they are an interracial couple.  We've already seen the sequel commercial, it's cute and very funny.  And the complaints have already started!  Which is so stupid.  What's really stupid is that a lot of the gripes are saying that it should have either been an all-white family or an all-black family, that it's "not realistic" to have a mixed family.  However, there is one major problem with that - they are a real family!  The people in the commercial are a real husband-wife-child family!  How "not realistic" is that??  It shouldn't matter!  Even if they were hired actors and not a real family, it still shouldn't matter.  Cheerios basically told the complainers to get a life and that they are going to continue to run their commercials featuring the family.

 

 

 

 

 

They get our vote, we've always eaten Cheerios and will definitely continue to now.  And Bill frequently gets the heart-shaped bowl Otter got from cheerios years ago.

 

Time to go throw another log on the fire!