...now I'm glad we decided to cancel the weekend away, after all. 
Edit: One of my dear friends has asked if I have made good on those threats to make myself cheerful through baking. I have indeed been baking, and getting all cheerful about it, and writing it all down. Unfortunately, the arrival of the blizzard, and the attendant change in barometric pressure, has given me a honking great headache. I am waiting for this sucker to pass. Once it does, I'll be back, really.
i was about to say, oh whew, it would be really unbearable if it was just a flurry now, but then came the headache part....
I saw the news this morning and thought to self, “Damn, Lloyd and Bakerina were smart to cancel their plans,” and began to hope that you had something as nice to eat as the cranberry-orange muffins G made this morning.
Cool! Wish I was there—in a kind of “that would be great fun to go throw snowballs” kind of way. Instead I’m worrying about whether or not the back of my neck is going to get sunburt while I’m repotting plants this afternoon. Weird country this is.
Snow speaks for me. When I heard reports of 22” in parts of NYC I thought “hey, nice day to not be travelling.”
And, hey, Kimberly does too, Seattle sister…
It looks like your weather pretty much mirrored the snowstorm we got here in Indiana at about the same time. Even the quality of the fluffiness is the same. The only difference is you got about three times more.
Wow, neato. But I’m really glad you didn’t go! Good god!
Wow. If going to snow enough to stop your best plans, then it might be best if it stops enough to stop everything. I was stuck in NYC in a blizzard quite a few years ago, with my daughter, when we were just having an impromptu bargain escape weekend. Despite the hassle getting home 3 days late, it was lovely.
Instead of going to the airport and waiting, we decided to make new flight reservations several days ahead. We were so lucky- we were offered a studio apartment for a few nights, by a friend of my mother,who was out of town and we walked there, with our little suitcases, from our hotel. She had called her neighbor to let us in. It was so soft and quiet and strange. Manhattan with no car sounds- just people’s voices, and dogs barking.
I wound up spending way more money than I could afford, even with the free place to stay, but it was worth it.
I’m so jealous. Even when I lived in New York, the blizzards hit when I was gone. Every damn time. And here I am, ready to fly to New York next weekend, and the blizzard had to happen before I arrived. Sheesh.
I do hope the headache is now but a memory. I’m sure the snow is now blackened. But I hope you enjoyed it anyway.
That’s a far cry from the merely decorative snow we get in Seattle. I’m glad baking has worked its magic on your mood, and look forward to reading/seeing the results. Hope the headache passes soon.