It was a bit of a double victory, really.
The outside of my sliding patio door has been completely inaccessible for months. As soon as the temperatures dropped below freezing, the door froze shut. Then it snowed. Hip deep. There was no going around the house and onto the deck from the outside, either. I now only vaguely recall having virtuously washed most of the windows on one of the last decent days of the fall. It seems that Sasha helped. And that is how I happened to spend the last 6 months with paw prints and swirls of muddy water at a certain 4 year old's height mocking me every time I sat down at the table.
I can hardly be called fastidious, but this bothered me.
Waiting for the snow melt around the house has been slow going, but at last, just this week, we made it onto the deck.
I am not a big fan of window washing most days, but it was with no small amount of satisfaction that, armed with Windex and an entire roll of paper towels, I informed the girls that we were Going Outside.
It was a bit strange to finally walk out into a place that I have been able to look at but not go to for such a long time. And it took such a very small amount of time and supplies to get the doors clean. It might have been anticlimactic had it not been for Victory #2. The roasting pan.
Apparently, sometime way, way back before it snowed, I had fed some leftovers to the cats in my shallow roasting pan and neglected to bring the dish back in. I'm bad for that. I didn't give it another thought until I wanted to roast a ham last week. Found the chicken roaster. Found the massive turkey roaster. Could not even imagine what had become of the shallow roaster (also known as the lid to the chicken roaster). You can imagine my surprise and delight upon finding it freshly thawed and full of cat hair and other winter debris right there on the patio. Right, it seems, where I left it.
I suppose there's a lesson in that.
(And the mess below should be a really pretty button. But it's not. Maybe next week.)
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Our slider got snowed in too, resulting in water pouring in...ugh.
ReplyDeleteGlad you found your pan!
Try cutting the "mess" from the "compose" view of your draft and pasting it at the bottom of your "edit HTML" view (see the top two tabs on the post in the draft?) -- then the button will magically appear!
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It is hard to even imagine that much snow! We did not have any in my part of Oregon this year! I couldn't figure out the button either, but Leila gave me directions so I will try again next week! Happy spring!
ReplyDeleteHi! Found you from the comments on like mother like daughter blog. You are doing great!
ReplyDeleteI had the same kinda thing happen to me this summer. It was an expensive kid snow shovel (that my kid couldn't use the whole time the snow was around) and a deck that was so high with snow that was all I could practically see through the window while I was at the sink. I'm SO thankful the snow is gone! I was feeling so claustrophobic.
Good luck with your new blog - I enjoy blogging.
ReplyDeleteGlad you found your pan!
Good for you for attempting the blogging. It's awesome! You will build a fantastic community of friends. Just be yourself and you will have instant camaraderie!
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