Wintery weather

Yep. It's cold. Monday night class was cancelled because all the weather channels predicted 3 - 7 inches of snow, but in fact only about an inch fell and landed in our neighbourhood. All the same, I'm happy not to have gone because Clyde had to drive to Virginia on business, taking my car with him. And I didn't want to have to drive home in the dark, in bad weather, in a car I'm less comfortable in. The car he uses is a 1991 Jeep Cherokee. It works, pretty much, fine. It has a new-ish engine, which we installed over the summer. But since then it's gears are wonky. You have to really slam them into place! It's disconcerting. Anyway, it's a perfectly usable vehicle. I just didn't want to have to deal with all the factors at once.

Though the snow has stopped, it's bitterly cold here. I spent much of the day sitting on the couch writing christmas cards and thinking about clambering back into the flannel sheets in the company of cats. But no. Instead I watched/listened to almost six hours of music television while I wrote. Occasionally I checked and sent email, and read some posts at the IIN web forum. I noticed that a lot of forum posts, both at IIN and elseweb, have dropped off this week. I wonder if it's because everyone's fingers are too cold to type? More likely they are bundled up in flannel bedsheets with a good book. I wanted to do that, too, but really felt it would be lazy. I don't think of bed as the place to write letters, although I know one novelist who writes her books in bed. Literally.