Cherry hand pies

For some reason the phrase "hand pie" sounds vaguely obscene to me. Good thing we're not on tumblr. But anyway it is not obscene. It's a hand-held dessert pastry, made bright and early this morning by me in honor of (a) the snow shitstorm bearing down upon us (b) Waylie getting out of jail (c) Lala winning the weight loss challenge thing at her work and coming home four hundred dollars richer plus also able to eat again and (d) Lala's friend Amy who got me ten pounds of unshelled walnuts for xmas (after Lala told her I really adored pecans) and who carefully, via the Lala relay, expressed a desire for cherry hand pies in exchange. She is going to be disappointed.

( The spirit of xmas is not Give So You Can Get In Return. )

I kinda hate winter

Snowmageddon report. We currently have about 5" of heavy, wet, packable snow. Forecast for the overnight through to the AM says "Rain, snow, freezing rain, and sleet before 1am, then rain between 1am and 4am, then rain and sleet likely after 4am."

It's shifting to sleet right now because snow is quieter than this. Rain from 1 AM to 4 AM (the nat'l weather service does not have capitals b/c of partial shutdown, I guess) will make this into a heavier, wetter slopfest of a thing. Depending on rain amount between now and dawn, the snow may be too wet to throw off a decent snowplow, in which case I will break out the fifty-damn-year-old dozer (It's actually only 47, being a 1972 vintage) and scrape the slush off the road before heading in to do sidewalks for work which will probably also be too wet to snowthrow. There's always shoveling by hand

Joy joy.

Slush needs to be scraped off b/c it's going to be like 5 overnight Sunday night which will freeze everything including non-removed slush into a solid. I can't just wait for it to melt. It needs to be dealt with, and promptly.