Your Snow-Day-Without-Power Guide
What do you do on a snow day without power?
First, stay in the warmest room in the house. For me, this would be the bedroom. Open the curtains to let in good light for reading.
Next, get a warm dog to cuddle up next to you, preferably a big dog. A bigger dog will provide much more body heat for you, and instead of feeling like it's 60 degrees in the house, it will feel like 70 degrees. (Also, it's OK if the dog wants to take up more room in the bed then you do.)
Don't get too excited when you hear trucks backing up and think it's the electric company coming to fix your power. Chances are it's just the city plowing the streets, which is also very important!
If you start to feel cold, even though you're snuggled up next to a 70 pound dog, go ahead and call your neighbors to check if they have power or not.
The majority of my neighborhood DID have power. How lucky for them. So a friend/neighbor/coworker drove her 4-wheeler over to my house and picked me up. I was happy to be rescued!
... No pictures of that... yet...
When your husband gets off work and picks you up from your neighbor with power's house, stop and ask how much the guy on the Bobcat charges to shovel the 10 inches of snow, plus the leftover snow from last week's storm of your driveway and porch. Understand that $30 is worth saving him 3 hours of shoveling "Heart Attack Snow".
Then, your driveway will look like this,
and since the main roads in town are clear, you will be able to get out the next day to go shopping with more snow days in store.
Although you love snow days, it wouldn't hurt to do a little daydreaming of this:
First, stay in the warmest room in the house. For me, this would be the bedroom. Open the curtains to let in good light for reading.
Next, get a warm dog to cuddle up next to you, preferably a big dog. A bigger dog will provide much more body heat for you, and instead of feeling like it's 60 degrees in the house, it will feel like 70 degrees. (Also, it's OK if the dog wants to take up more room in the bed then you do.)
You don't want to run down your phone by being on Facebook all day, so don't even bother using technology. Instead, catch up on all that reading you've been wanting to do!
Don't get too excited when you hear trucks backing up and think it's the electric company coming to fix your power. Chances are it's just the city plowing the streets, which is also very important!
If you start to feel cold, even though you're snuggled up next to a 70 pound dog, go ahead and call your neighbors to check if they have power or not.
The majority of my neighborhood DID have power. How lucky for them. So a friend/neighbor/coworker drove her 4-wheeler over to my house and picked me up. I was happy to be rescued!
... No pictures of that... yet...
When your husband gets off work and picks you up from your neighbor with power's house, stop and ask how much the guy on the Bobcat charges to shovel the 10 inches of snow, plus the leftover snow from last week's storm of your driveway and porch. Understand that $30 is worth saving him 3 hours of shoveling "Heart Attack Snow".
Then, your driveway will look like this,
and since the main roads in town are clear, you will be able to get out the next day to go shopping with more snow days in store.
Although you love snow days, it wouldn't hurt to do a little daydreaming of this:
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