Wild, Wild Weather

We continue to ride a wild, wild weather period.  The freeway between Carson and Reno was closed quite a bit and even when not officially closed, chains and/or snow tires were required most of last week.  We upgraded my tires last Fall but they still aren't technically snow tires.  

We've been snowed in a lot and we both feel it.

Yesterday, the guy who owns the huge bulldozer/digger (used to create the pad for the houses under construction) took the digger all around our loop.  He moved snow onto the only vacant lot in our neighborhood and created quite a pile.  We ended up with a lot of snow piled up at the end of our driveway which took some shoveling (by J. and our neighbor T.) to remove so we could get the car out.  When J. said 'we might have trouble getting out of the driveway at this point', I was skeptical - how bad could it be?  But it was a pretty high berm at the driveway's edge so safer to remove it vs. trying to drive over it.

Today, I ended up changing the cat grooming appointment we had scheduled for this Thursday to mid-April.  They have a 24 hour cancellation notice and when I called to express concerns about 'what if we can't get there on Thursday', we decided the best thing to do was move the appointment out.  

It's too bad we have to wait another six weeks - Muf really, REALLY needs a trim - but we've had so many events and planned trips to Reno that we've needed to cancel or change, better to just make the change and eliminate the worry about it. All will be well.  I will give Muf a good brushing using the cat grooming vac and that will help.  I hope.  

I've got a huge Walmart grocery order waiting in the cart - I get gift cards as a casino perk so I'm hoping we can hold off until I pick up the cards later this month.  

It's now Wednesday and we've had snow all morning.  I trekked to the kitchen for another cup of coffee and declared 'I am grumpy'.  J. said 'I won't say anything' but I'm pretty sure the words 'how can I tell?' might have been on the tip of his tongue.  I'm just tired of snow.  Wait.  Really?  I'm not tired of snow as much as I'm tired of relying on forecasts constantly to make plans only to have the forecasts be wrong and I'm disappointed yet again.  We're not sure if we can get to Reno at all this weekend?  Guess we'll see. 

I had some good slot play days earlier this week and the wins inevitably lead to looking forward (even more) to playing again soon.  Weather thwarting my plans constantly is hard. 

I kicked myself into high gear and tackled finishing our taxes.  I'm ready to e-file today and our refund should be here in a couple weeks.  Glad to have that done and off the list.  

There's a bit of sun now which is welcome!  I can see pavement on the street again so we got snow but nothing super heavy.  Thank goodness!  Maybe we can go for a drive!