Day 371

After a blood draw at the lab, Jamie and Lynn visited Urban Egg for breakfast before going for their #2 COVID vaccine shots. They have their coffee available by the pound, too. Interesting melting formations abound outside. Lots of electronics on this first day of spring break (well, technically, teacher conferences today and tomorrow then spring break all next week). Tonight's movie: The Resistance Bank (Dutch resistance fighters in Amsterdam cripple the Nazis financially).

Matt's stuffed poblano.

Day 370

Happy St. Patty's Day! Another great walk to school for AJ and Papa. And this time Papa had his phone with him for pics. Starbucks had an excellent St. Patrick's Day cold brew drink with matcha powder. Matt and Jamie tried to go to Abby's Irish Pub for lunch, but it would have been a 3-week wait. So we went to Vaqueros (another fave), added a shot of Irish whisky to the otherwise very Mexican menu, and had a very good lunch, and toasted the Irish. Matt whipped up an excellent meal of scrambled eggs, a great mushroom and sausage saute thing, and asparagus for dinner. Then off AJ and Matt went to AJ's first baseball practice of 2021, indoors, of course. Tonight's movie: The Highwaymen (another good picture "based on real-life").

Simba up on the overhanging cliff.

First 2021 baseball practice

Day 369

AJ and Papa had a really fun walk to school today. The snow was pretty impressive. It blocked our path, it could be walked on without falling through (in some places), and some amazing drift formations. David had his first horse PT today of his second session (6 weeks, I think). We were told of all kinds of "tricks" he did on horseback (none of us go in with him, we wait outside). Tonight's movie: Greater, another excellent "based on real-life" movie about faith, determination, and football. It was followed by Two Weeks Notice.

Over three feet of snow on the far side of the sidewalk.

Unusual melting pattern.

Where the sidewalk ends.

Day 368

More snow. And a snow day from school, except for Matteo (online this week). The most snow we've seen at the house since we moved here in 2017. Lots of snow pics below. Tonight's movie: Defiance. We've had good luck lately under the True Stories category.

This courtyard is 360 degrees
surrounded by the house.

And this deck has a roof!

I-25 was closed overnight.
We found trucks chillin' all over the place.

Front walk was over a foot deep in some places.

Tracy has been watching these tree stakes since yesterday.
They're over 3 feet tall.

Neighbor's house: partially re-plastered with white stuff.

Matteo is online all this week.

Gaming and talking with friends on the west coast.

Cozy game-playing in the theater room.

Shooting for Easter...

Day 367

Snowmaggedon. No church. No nothing. Except Jamie just had to get out and slide around on the roads a bit. Even Fina got in on it for a little snow driving practice. Most weather reports say we got about a foot in the past 24 hours. That means the depth is anywhere from zero to 3 feet or more because of the drifting. It was pretty much a horizontal snow all day. We did make a successful run to Starbucks, but the attempt to get to McDonald's failed. Jamie got there OK, pulled up to the order spot, the gal asked for the order, and after getting one item on the list, Jamie never heard from the order-taker again. In driving around the building it was clear no one was there. Probably talking to someone in India who didn't know the store was closed. Didn't matter, Jamie had a blast hotdogging in the snow. Jonnie totally rebuilt the railroad in Papa's office. We watched two of the Mighty Ducks (hockey) movies in the afternoon and the night's movie was The Siege at Jadotville (150 Irish UN peacekeepers hold off thousands of mercenaries hired by French and Belgian mining companies).

The very littles got to play in the snow.

This area is under a roof.

Zero to 3-feet or more due to strong winds.