Empty Nest

The girls are down in Virginia for Liz’s bachelorette party, so I’ve been home alone since Wednesday.  It’s very weird.  It’s not the first time I haven’t seen them for a week, but it’s very different being the one left at home.  There are reminders of them everywhere – very different than an austere hotel room and 12 hr days at a factory.  The house seems so empty!    I can’t wait for their return tonight.  There may be one or two kisses involved.

Big news from the weekend they missed:

• 51 cms of snow!  They took both cameras, otherwise I would have posted a photo of our backyard, full to the top of the fence in some places with snow.  Humph could have hopped over to the neighbor’s yard.  We’re now a foot short of the all-time record for snowfall.  And snow is forecast for Wednesday.
• Speaking of Humph, he had a rawhide bone in the back yard last weekend when we were building the snowman.  I let him out yesterday, and within 10 minutes he had dug the bone up, from under 5 feet of snow!  It’s amazing that he could find it by smell.
• Our street was impassable even after the plow came by.  It moved a lot of the snow, but there was still a foot of snow left, too much for our little car without winter tires.  There’s been enough traffic that it’s OK today.
• Our neighbor rocks – he snow-blowed (blew?) our driveway yesterday!  Twice, in fact.  He came back after the plow came by to remove the furrow of snow.  I did my part though – before he came I shoveled a car-width down the driveway.  A good 1 hr workout.
• After 2.5 years of owning an xbox, I finally finished a game!  Mass Effect, a space opera from the makers of Baldur’s Gate and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.  Excellent rental.  Call of Duty 4?  Not so much.
• I eat way better when the girls are around.  Solo, I revert to one meal a day, which is most often a shawarma 🙂