Monday, January 6

Donner Pass, day 2. Anyone know where the lizard is?

Everything is pretty much shut down around here. Temperature dropped during the day from about 20 degrees at sunrise to -7 right now (8:30 PM), with one really wicked cold wind.

weather.com, 8:30 PM.

After shoveling the driveway yet again, we did the mile loop around our neighborhood when it was about 10 degrees. Not too much activity except the drone of snowblowers. Since our street probably will not get plowed until tomorrow or the day after, snowblowers are just another noisy attempt to assert dominance of man over nature. I can’t go anywhere but at least me and my snowblower can keep my driveway clear.

Lise and Molly in the middle of the street during our walk around the block.

Neighborhood deer.

These are optimists. Do they really expect a hummingbird?

Personally, I’m quite happy sitting in a corner reading or watching the wind make cool snow sculptures. Besides the lizard, we have a good week’s worth of food available, including a block of scrapple. So as long as we have electricity and an internet connection I don’t feel like I just have to drive somewhere. I can just sit back and let it all be.