Wintery Mix

We are at the end of 3 ice days! Chris has been home playing with us and cooking up a storm (first try at kolaches a success!). After what started out as the warmest winter anyone can remember, we finally got hit with a storm. They come every 3 years or so. It's ice more than snow and down here no one is prepared for icy roads. So everyone just stays in. When we had some snow flurries yesterday, we bundled up and went outside. The front yards all along our street were filling up with our neighbors. College kids played football in the street. People let their dogs roam off leash. That in itself was a magical sight. But Bowie in snow...such wonder! He could not eat enough of it. He was face down in it, lapping at it like a dog. And he ate at least 6 icicles. Probably 10. And he really wanted to have a snow fight. An unexpected vacation at home. It's been wonderful.

Chris is feeling a bit cooped up though. Stores are opening up and he's out to get more provisions (for broccoli soup and meatloaf and chard and butternut squash). Bowie is napping for the first time in weeks after reading Jane Yolen's Owl Moon. I'm listening to the drip of melting ice. Loving the wintry mix.