Random Seasonings – A Snow Day Blog – January 28th, 2009

The Lone Sentinel - a tiki torch, a reminder of summer past, stands guard next to the limbs of a pine tree weighted down by ice and snow.

Snow day equals blog day. After a vain attempt to make it to work this morning, I turned around and drove back home to spend the day watching the snow and ice come down, along with the trees and power lines. School was out, but since my son was at his mother’s robbing me of my normal side kick, accomplice and co-conspirator, I had to find other ways to pass the time. Like catching up on all the news that’s fit to eat. My first preference would have been to spend the afternoon in the kitchen, but since each news update brought word of Mother Nature’s ever expanding involuntary rolling blackouts I decided launching into some new culinary enterprise probably wasn’t a good idea. As it turns out, we lost power around 2pm for nearly three hours, just long enough for nice cat nap, which is apparently how my cat spends every day. Given the choice between writing something serious or frivolous, I decided to keep it casual. So here are the fruits of my afternoon and evening labors, more random thoughts from the Honaker household.

Obama(food)palooza: One thing is certain, never has so much been written about the food likes and dislikes of the President.

And now the work begins…

New Year’s Day is always a time of sorting through, throwing out, putting away and generally trying to take back control of my house from the festivities that have ruled it since back before Halloween. While the decorations aren’t coming down just yet (my six year old son won’t hear of it for another week), it will feel nice to soon see the place without any type of holiday ornamentation. After all, there are menus to plan and cooking to be done…