Winter Storm Watch

Winter is coming.  You can tell because these birds are super busy at the feeders!

Okay, so winter is already here, but the kind of winter we haven't seen yet is on the way, due here sometime this weekend.  That said, we were out grocery shopping before coming back home.   Mom texted us a fairly big list, and yes, there were others there shopping although not as many as there will be later on this week.  Generally, the great weather panic hits a day or two before the storm.  Maddie and I gathered up a good bit of what we need, and I think we'll be ready, hopefully.  This is a unique storm to us, unlike many of the ones that have come before and something I haven't seen in quite some time:  a significant storm of ice.  And for a twist, it appears as if our county is actually in the crosshairs of both the American and European model forecasts.  There are some variations as always between the two, but in both, we're right there in that zone that will get hit with the most ice, apparently.  Uh-oh.  We'll see how things turn out.

In the meantime, things are cold and overcast and generally boring here.  We did some work at the office today, setting up for "Better Together," which is a new series we're returning to in February at KidPak.  Since I'm pretty much done with this weekend, why not work on that?  Also, we worked on a few messages for March today too, which was pretty forward thinking.  We've got to get to that book, which we're doing.  We're figuring what to do for a baseball series, and writing messages that have a baseball theme to them, tying those to classic Bible stories.  We have one on Joseph and one on Moses, and they both should be pretty good, plus that one on the Ten Commandments.  We'll see as we move forward how all that turns out. 

Maddie had her college classes today, and next week she'll have a retreat, although things might be shortened due to the weather.  We'll see how that goes.  But she'll have to pack soon and get ready for a retreat where she's gone a few days during the week. 

Mom is pretty much back to full strength, and that's good.  She has fatigue still, but given that it was just last week that she was sick, I think we're in good condition moving forward.

Tonight we ventured back to Neverland, this time for a return to the live production of "Peter Pan" that they did a few years ago with Christopher Walken.  This somewhat concludes our current marathon of recorded live productions of classic plays.  We've done "Grease," "Hairspray," "The Wiz," and "The Sound of Music," and of course "A Christmas Story" back in December.  Now "Peter Pan" is here, and that got Maddie wanting to watch the 2003 "Peter Pan" tomorrow, which we think is the best live action adaptation of the story we've seen.  Anyway, we might stay in Neverland a while - I don't know.

What I do know is that we got to bed earlier tonight. We read from our current story, and we said our prayers.  The blankets are nice and warm tonight.