>its a balmy -7 out there at 8am. Im looking forward to noon when we should top out at 0. well, we did make the salmon, risotto and broccoli on monday. Tuesday was left over bean soup, and last night we made chicken pot pie. im thinking san su tonight but it could be leftover pot pie. And now lets walk the dogs. The cold weather really hurts their paws – poor things!
But really cold mornings can have beautiful sunrises… here is the view down our street!
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we were coming home from school today and just before we turned the corner for beech street we saw this house – we call it the icicle house! Take a look at those icicles!!! Well, subzero temps can really dress us the landscape!
>21 is the sum of our forecasted highs for wed, thur, and fri this coming week (9, 7, and 5 respectively). Anyone seen that ground hog yet?
Update: So now thursday’s high is predicted to 1 degree F. You know what? that makes sunday’s weather prediction of 33 look down right balmy. I think we’ll go running in shorts and a tank top!
Update 2: I forgot to report on supper. We had pasta y fagioli (AKA bean soup), spinach salad and bread. yum! great for a cold and snowy day! Tonight I think we are going to have salmon, winter squash risotto and broccoli. Lets see if we really get our acts together tonight for that!
>We are starting to gain fast and furious here up in the north country! By this time next week we will be gaining a a minute and a half of sunlight a day, and Jan 11 marks the first day the sun will start to rise earlier!!
Jan 8, 2009 8:08 AM 5:22 PM 9h 14m 02s + 1m 14s
Jan 9, 2009 8:08 AM 5:23 PM 9h 15m 20s + 1m 18s
Jan 10, 2009 8:08 AM 5:24 PM 9h 16m 42s + 1m 22s
Jan 11, 2009 8:07 AM 5:26 PM 9h 18m 07s + 1m 25s
Jan 12, 2009 8:07 AM 5:27 PM 9h 19m 36s + 1m 28s
Jan 13, 2009 8:07 AM 5:28 PM 9h 21m 08s + 1m 32s
Jan 14, 2009 8:06 AM 5:29 PM 9h 22m 44s + 1m 35s
Now, in case you’ve been wondering what we’ve been eating, well its nothing too special. Last night was spaghetti with homemade pesto, the day before was beans, eggs, tortillas, salsa and such, and the day before that we went out to eat at a yummy fish place.
>If you dont live on a hill you might ask well just make your own with the deck!
>Its a beautiful but cold morning here in mid michigan. The sun is peaking out from behind some broken clouds and the roads don’t look too snow covered. A see a nice run in the forecast! It’s going to get up to 31 degrees today! We’re nearly 10 days past the shortest day of winter. Our mornings haven’t gotten any earlier, but the evenings are a bit longer, with the sun not starting to set until 5:15pm (civil twilight, 5:47pm). Lets not talk sunrise. we’re morning people. We are still on a two person crusade to get michigan on the central time zone to wake that sun up an hour earlier! ha ha. Scott’s approach is to simply just live on central time, but I’m going to get a petition going and send it off to the legislature. think they will take it seriously? We’ve already gained 5 minutes! So, here is the projection for the next few days:
Jan 1, 2009 8:09 AM 5:15 PM 9h 06m 43s + 46s
Jan 2, 2009 8:09 AM 5:16 PM 9h 07m 33s + 50s
Jan 3, 2009 8:09 AM 5:17 PM 9h 08m 28s + 54s
Jan 4, 2009 8:09 AM 5:18 PM 9h 09m 27s + 58s
Jan 5, 2009 8:09 AM 5:19 PM 9h 10m 30s + 1m 02s
Jan 6, 2009 8:09 AM 5:20 PM 9h 11m 37s + 1m 06s
Jan 7, 2009 8:08 AM 5:21 PM 9h 12m 47s + 1m 10s
>Scott and I promised to stay up till midnight – lets see if we can make it! tonight we had winter squash soup. I got the recipe out of my eating well magazine. First i roasted the squash and some garlic in the oven for 40 minutes. Then I cut up an onion and and 1 carrot and sauteed them on the stove. Then I added the squash that I had roasted and the garlic, some salt and some cumin, and a few cups of water, and let that simmer for about 45 minutes. Then I blended it and served it. It was a hair bland, but still good.
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well its starting to cloud up a bit, but i had to post that its up a whopping 46 degrees out! So, we broke open the new sidewalk chalk (thanks Davis family) and decorated the driveway.
>So last night I made butternut squash raviolis with sage and gorgonzola. We also had asparagus on the side. I guess it falls under the pasta category, but still it felt like a break from the same old. Im not sure what we’re going to have to tonight. Im thinking of making perch with some risotto on the side. We have an acorn squash, so maybe that instead of the risotto. I might make kale or broccoli, i havent decided yet.
Its a beautiful sunny day in mid Michigan. Its 43 degrees out and barely a cloud in the sky. The girls and I walked over to hannah center, then the library, then the track. All in all about 1.5 miles, but it felt good to be outdoors and not be too cold! The snow is mainly melted, except for the snow banks. But, the melting snow is causing the red cedar river to crest. Its supposed to be 7.2 feet tonight. Last September it crested at 7.3 feet and the water came up just about as high as the “rock” across from erickson. We will try to get over there to check it out and take some pics.
>Im wondering if I really need to report what we’ve eaten for the last three days… I think lets just say that we’ve had lots and lots and lots of good food at both of our parents homes! We will post some pictures over the weekend.
What strange weather! Its about 54 degrees this morning here in mid michigan. I thought I would get a run outdoors in a t-shirt and tights until the thunder and lightening started. This breaks our “snow every day” pattern I guess! We had about 20 inches of snow in our yard christmas eve, so its going to mush today. Im going to suggest we all wear fishing waders today.
Yesterday the weather was also crazy. We were driving from Columbus OH to Jackson MI and just south of Toledo we hit freezing rain and almost instantaneously the roads turned into a sheet of ice. Cars were falling off of the road left and right. The highway was shutdown and we all just had to sit in our cars on the highway for about an hour and 15 minutes waiting for the salter to come through and for the highway to be reopened. Scott took this picture of the cars and trucks waiting on the icy road. that beautiful shine on the road is pure ice! he also got out of the car to get something from the back and literally skated all the way around the car. It was amazing we could even drive as we did on that road before they shut it down.
