stevenpiziks | Big Snow Coming

Our first big snowstorm is on the way. It's already causing conflict.

Kala was to have the boys this weekend. She's leaving for Arizona in a couple weeks and won't see them much after this, so she's taking them this weekend and next. Or that was the plan. She picked them up on Friday, and I had a boy-free evening.

On Saturday I paid bills and caught up on house stuff and then noticed the storm watch. Big storm probably coming. And then it turned into a warning. Three to five inches tonight, five to seven inches on Sunday. With much wind. Great. I called Kala and told her I'd come get the boys this evening because I didn't want to drive through that.

I did this, got home, and made out the grocery list for the next week. Then I did the grocery shopping. The store was all but deserted, which rather surprised me; I thought there'd be more blizzard stocking up going on. Guess not.

Partway through, I realized I hadn't had supper. On a whim, I grabbed some frozen crab legs. They're a favorite, and if I was going to lose half a weekend, I wanted at least one treat.

Back home, the boys put everything away. I went to work in the kitchen. In a very short time I had a huge pile of crab and baked potatoes. ("Why do you never buy these for us?" Sasha demanded. "Because whenever I get seafood, everyone complains. These are mine, so hands off.")

They were very good.

Now we can watch the storm roll toward us in safety.