Monday: why my back could be sore

First of all, I had to collect six catapult pieces and carry them at once in my backpack. "No big deal," I thought. But then I found out they (circled in yellow) were about six times the size of me (circled in blue).

Fine, fine...my back probably isn't sore from that. But it could be sore from shoveling this morning. We didn't get shoveled out until around noon (we took many breaks). I did go into work after lunch, but there were only about 15 out of 50 people there.

We shoveled just enough to get the car out.

(And my back isn't sore...but after today, it could have been. The snow was heavy.)

Sunday: weather

I took this picture this morning because I found it interesting how the last bit of snow was melting from our deck.

But then by the time we got back from church around 1pm, we had an inch of snow!

By 4pm, we had more.

When I went out to shovel, it was a good 4" and still coming down hard. The part I shoveled first probably had about 1/8" on it by the time I was done, 15 minutes later.

And here's my helper. She wanted me to go to bed.

Update: Ben and I went to shovel again around 9:30. There was another 5" minimum.

UpdateII: Ben and I looked outside around 10:30. There was another 1".

Saturday: waking up

I woke up way too early this morning...earlier than the alarm usually goes off on a weekday. While it was kind of sad, I did accomplish many things before 9am.

Friday: something I never thought I'd burn

Tonight I was making curry (and using up the potatoes). At one point, I need to heat some vegetable oil and then put flour in it. In the past when I've done this, little bubbles appear when it gets hot.

So this time I was waiting for the bubbles to appear. And waiting. And making sure the burner was on. And waiting some more. No bubbles. Finally I decided it had been long enough and started to put the flour in. It stank like burnt food, and the flour even looked burnt. So I threw it out and started again. It turns out that the little bubbles only appear when there is an "imperfection" in the oil...like a little piece of meat from the main dish. But when your pan is perfectly clean, the oil just starts to heat without the bubbles.

And the quilt progress - I've quilted about 1/4 of it.

Thursday: long week

It's been a long week. I'm glad tomorrow is Friday.

Wordless Wednesday

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Tuesday: puffs

I had my yearly eye exam today. I passed. Phew.

The nice lady that was working the pre-eye test stuff let me off with only one eye puff. I have such a hard time with that machine. She first said that she was going to do three puffs in each eye. Talk about torture. In the end she just did one puff in one eye.

Part of the problem is that I don't know when it is going to come, so I squeal a little bit after each puff. The other problem is that my eyes just don't stop blinking. I try really, really hard to keep them open, but on the puff machine they just don't pay any attention to me.

*Blink*