This picture? Taken early in the week, before we had another six inches of the fluffy white dumped on us.

People's vehicles have been stuck on roads all over the area, as the municipal graders are not able to keep up with the snowfall combined with high winds.

My trip to Grandma's today, where Everett was going to spend the night, was kiboshed in favour of staying warm and cosy. The idea of shovelling out a snowbank in the middle of a gravel road somewhere between there and here was not too appealing.

Thursday night we came home from Everett's piano lesson and had to park on the road and shovel 50 feet of driveway in order to get the van up to the house. Fortunately the snow was, though deep, light and powdery, and Everett thought shovelling was fun.

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Let's see, what's new:

1) new mattress and boxspring this week -- gotta like that; a little more padding and my hipbones aren't grinding into the thing, so it seems a luxury fit for a queen.

2) a girlhood friend's mom's funeral in town yesterday; sad occasion, particularly since the cause of death is not known and, although she'd been ailing for several months, her illness was not expected to kill her. So on top of shock and grief, her children and family have this mystery (as the pastor called it) to cope with. One asks enough Whys when the reasons are known; this must be even more difficult.

3) after the funeral, a good visit with my friend Clever and her family, with whom I spent quite a bit of time as a teenager. Her mom still calls me a "brat."