I have been waiting all year for one of these.
You know ... the "Snow Day" when everyone is off ... everything stops ... and you just have a day at home with the family to chill.
I had feared that the winter would end without even one, but we just managed today to sneak one in.
The snow started about 4 this morning, and came down slow and steady all day. Willa found out at 5:30 that her school was closed ... I just stayed in bed squeezing my eyes shut and praying ... until 6 when I logged on the computer to find out that we were closed at work.
So gone is the guilt about not going in when everyone else (who does not live one hour away and up the mountain) is at work, and gone are the fears over the fight with Birding Dad when I say I am going to work and he says "you are not".
No stress, no worry ... just all of us at home ... cups of coffee and cocoa and watching the birds out the window. If SHE can post about all her special birds seen on her class assignment fun birdwatching trip ... and then about her mystery bird at her feeder,(we had the same "mystery bird" only the male is much easier to identify in the winter) I can show off my birds at the new feeder Birding Dad made us on the deck. It has been so much fun to have the birds closer to the house, and today ... well ... you would think we had the only birdseed in town with all the activity! Click the photo and then go check out the rest of the bird pictures!

Posted by sunybank at February 22, 2008 11:20 PM