Snow again

[unicornduke]

Finally went for a walk in the woods yesterday and there was only one big tree down which is good. Lots of little stuff. But the big tree was along the treeline where the neighbors cleared their property this fall, normally it would have been in the middle of a bunch of trees, but now it was exposed to the wind. Tipped right over. Not sure if it was originally on their property or ours, but it fell directly across our path into the woods. Either way, I suspect we'll be clearing it out. Saturday's windstorm did knock out the power, but for like, two hours. It did blow down two trees, one that was holding up a half tree that had fallen back in March and I'd just left there, so it blew into the swamp and the tree I didn't clear also fell into the swamp, so procrastinating things sometimes works. The other tree was the top third of a hemlock that popped off and fell towards the swamp, completely missing the dog play area fencing. 

We're due for 3-5 inches of snow today, nice amount, not too much but it'll make everything pretty. Roads are pretty mucky but I don't need to go anywhere until Sunday. 

Work stuff got complicated, my boss had to go to Europe for her MILs funeral, so I'm moving her meetings around, covering a few meetings and she's going to send me a list of little things, like mailing an order form and hilariously, calling Amish people back to leave messages for them since calls would be very expensive. I'm covering her session at a conference on Sunday, but since I made the powerpoint for it, I think I'll do just fine. I'm also covering her partner's talk at the session since I know all about that project too. 

I determined that my small headache and upset stomach were due to the ground beef I cooked for dinner, I had some in a quesadilla without anything else I made and had the headache and upset stomach again yesterday. Why did it upset my stomach? I don't know! I don't eat ground beef all the time, but it shouldn't make me feel terrible. I cooked it fully. 

I'm making more dinner tonight, since I need to toss the meat. I got curry chicken sausage bulk, going to make cumin rice and potatoes, chickepeas and some kind of tomato based sauce to go with it all. 

I glanced at the time spent on instagram thing on the app and was alarmed at how much time I spent on there, so I swapped the app with Libby, switching where they are on my phone, so now I open Libby instead. I'm getting reading done. 

Comments

[oracne]

We got a little snow, too, but I think today's wintry mix will erase the pretty, alas.

[unicornduke]

Aww that's too bad. We're running well below freezing all week and might have some negative windchill! so our snow will stick around which is nice.

[reedrover]

I’m glad the snow is pretty and that you didn’t suffer too much from the winds. Despite all of the branches down around here, we didn’t lose power this time.

I like the idea of moving apps around. Maybe I should shift my FaceBook once a week so I don’t develop a habit of swipe-tap.

[unicornduke]

Yay for not losing power!

When I find I'm on a specific app too much like that, I move it to break up the automatic habits I've developed, open tap and for me, it works really well. I do it with other stuff too, my alarm, I'll change the noise it makes every couple of months to keep from getting too used to it.