random thoughts – Day 2,120 (Monday) – more snow and dancing

Bunny tracks?

It didn’t snow this morning and I was content with that. It waited until 3:00 in the afternoon, as I exited the house on a walk to the mail boxes at the end of the street. I was less content with that, but it was okay. It snowed for at least 90 minutes and after that I turned on the lights and closed the shades and don't know when it stopped.

The Scandinavians are credited with saying “There is no bad weather, only bad clothing.” I had on proper winter footwear, a warm coat, and a warm hat. The clothing deficiency was my chosen gloves and my fingers got cold, which didn't deter me from taking the gloves off to take pictures of tracks in the snow in the driveway (possibly bunny) and along the street (likely turkey). 

On the way to the mailboxes, I was carrying a bill to be deposited into the blue postal collection box. My left sleeve was pulled down over my gloved hand but my right gloved hand was not as covered and got cold. On the way back, I was carrying two pieces of mail collected from my mailbox and it was the same sleeve arrangement. (Note to self: the preferred gloves for use in the car are not the best choice for walking in 20-something degree snowy weather. Put on ski gloves, doofus.)

Afternoon snowfall, 4:17 p.m.

The day was productive. The trash and recycling were put out. A job application was submitted. I called the customer service number for my Bosch dishwasher with which I have been engaged in battle since August and the robot receptionist recording directed me to the site with online manuals. I sought tips on loading the thing so my plates, bowls, and cups will stop chipping, but mostly it was illustrations of how to load 10-place and 12-place settings consisting mostly of many plates in different sizes.

My usual load is primarily soup bowls, drinking glasses, coffee mugs, and flatware, and used to take a week to accumulate. This current piece of domestic insanity gets run a lot more often because I can’t figure out an efficient way to load it. Even half empty, everything comes out chipped and soon I will have to buy all new dishes. After consulting the manual and the illustrations I was no closer to a solution unless I start eating soup from a dinner plate. I am less thrilled about buying new dishes than I am about using newly chipped dishes, some of which are already new or were gifts.

My duet partner came over and we worked on new choreography and talked about costuming. We conquered half the dance and costuming is under control, so that felt very good. In less than two minutes looking through a drawer of patterns, I found one bought possibly a decade (or more) ago which will work perfectly and spares me drawing a pattern. It’s time to fire up the Singer machine I haven’t touched, possibly since I lived in Tennessee and made harem pants in a hurry for a dance costume after the ones I ordered were lost in shipping. Sewing is a perfect snow day/cold weather indoor activity, which means it will probably be beach weather beginning tomorrow.