Still Winter

I talked (it wasn't hard) His Lordship into going grocery shopping with me yesterday as the weather report said it was supposed to start snowing around 4am. So that's done for the week.

I stayed up late last night to watch the USA vs. Canada gold medal hockey game. I'm not a big hockey fan and don't know that much about the sport. Thank my Google-fu for the assist. It was quite the exciting time, but I got to bed much later than I normally do.

The text I got at 6:15am said it was just windy and no snow and he was fine. The Facebooks said the school district, in it's infinite wisdom, was going to have a two hour delayed start due to the winter weather. I looked out the window and there was nothing. I read for a bit and fell back asleep.

My terrible, awful bad dream woke me up around 9:30 and there was still no snow. As I look out my back window right now, it's just starting to come down and the facebook people are saying it's coming down like woah in the North Valley (where His Lordship works - a bit higher elevation). Just in time for the commute to school.

I know why they didn't just call a snow day. I talked to one of my friends who still works for the district and, evidently, there were no contingency days put into the school calendar. If there is a snow day, the kids will have to come back to school the Monday after the stated last day. If there are two, everyone comes Monday but Tuesday is an election day so only teachers go back. Three days? Monday everyone, Tuesday just teacher and Wednesday everyone. Like any of that will happen. What maroons.

Last year there were so many snow days called that they canceled all the Wednesday early release days (used for teacher professional development) so they could make them up without coming back. Evidently they got their hands slapped about that from the Dept. of Education. Oh boy.

Today looks like a good day to read in front of the fireplace.