Thread:CorgiMom/@comment-34076922-20190201025340/@comment-29989042-20190221161831

What a beautiful scene! 😍 I’m sooo jealous! Everything here is covered in white this morning, but it’s not snow. It’s graupel, which is supercooled water droplets that are collected and freeze on falling snowflakes. I’d never heard that precipitation term before (and I taught weather science for years!), until yesterday. It made driving conditions slick last night for the evening commute. We don’t have much of an evening commute in our small-ish town, but up in the Portland area, about 80 miles from us, and where my hubby works three days a week, the evening commute came to a standstill for all north and south bound lanes of I-5 (the major freeway from the Canadian border in Washington state to the Mexico border in California) because of a multi-vehicle crash involving semis. Thankfully my hubby wasn’t involved, but it took him over an hour to go 1.25 miles to the nearest exit, and another 2.25 hours to to get home taking the back roads. The big wreck was weather-related. This morning we had a black ice advisory, but I don’t think it was an issue in our town. Thankfully my hubby gets to work from home on Thursdays and Fridays, so no commute today!

So sorry you didn’t get your soup last night, as you had the perfect evening for it, but your mom borrowing your pot from the dishwasher put a smile on my face. 😄 I’m picturing you “raising your parents” as you’ve said before! I’d love to live close to my parents, but they’d have to move down here. They live in a big town on the west side of Portland, and I don’t want to live in a big city ever again. 😊

It’s a quiet morning here today. I usually have our youngest son’s black lab puppy (he’s seven months old) during the weekdays while he’s at work, but yesterday our son went home at lunchtime with a tummy bug. Our corgi and the puppy do lots of playing and wrestling in the mornings and keep me entertained. There is none of that here today, as our son is still sick. He has only had one other sick day in the couple of years he’s had his job. He works for our local school district on its technology team. He’s actually part of an apprenticeship program with local technicians and our community college to become a low-voltage tech. School, especially reading and writing, was difficult for him, but he’s a hands-on learner and was gifted with a knack for knowing and figuring out how things work. The job started out as a student summer position while he was in high school, and his technology team hired him full time after he graduated in 2016. He lives on his own now, in a house in the next town with two other friends, and his puppy has a good sized yard to play in when he’s home. I missed him when he first moved out, but I’m more than ok with it now...I love my hubby and I having the house to ourselves, just like we did before we became parents!

I’m on a decluttering mission this morning while my focus and energy is still good. Have to go through some of my teaching things stored in big tubs and see what I can donate/get rid of to reclaim our oldest son’s bedroom, which will eventually become a guest bedroom. Hope you enjoy your day! 😊