one more day

 the roads are still super icy so they closed campus for tomorrow. We got above freezing today but not for long, and it was cloudy, so we didn't get much melting.

I'm starting to get cabin feverish and am having 2020 flashbacks. I really hope the roads are okay tomorrow after noon to at least try to go get some fresh fruit. I've been eating stuff out of cans and the freezer, and I have enough food, but I just really want some green grapes.

I did get my garage open, it turned out my suspicion of "what if it dropped hard enough that the catch for the automatic opener re-engaged" - it felt like I had it free but I could NOT raise it manually, so I went and got my little opener and punched it and the door opened. I left it open about 6" just so there's no chance of it freezing to the sill again.

I read some on Pielou's "After the Ice Age" (A natural history of the revegetation of the glaciated areas, at least based on what we knew as of 2000) So I guess I can add that to my book list; I plan to read more tomorrow.

 I am also close to the end of The Black Spectacles. 

It's just that things take longer. I had to put mail out today (bills) so I had to find my Yak Trax because my yard slopes down to the street and I was afraid of falling, and then I had to get them to attach to a pair of shoes, then I had to grab my walking stick for further balance, and then get out there

 

AND THEN THE MAIL TRUCK DIDN'T EVEN STOP EVEN THOUGH I HAD THE FLAG UP BECAUSE I DIDN'T HAVE ANY INCOMING MAIL. 

and there's not a blue box near enough to brave walking to, so I retrieved it later in the day and will try putting it out again tomorrow. 

Maybe tomorrow I should wind off some yarn. I dug through my accumulated sock yarn and found one I want to knit into the cabled socks in that Interweave Knits Favorite Socks book (and some old, old Fortissima Socka in gray that I want to make into the lace leaf socks in there. But I keep telling myself I have to finish something first...

I really hope campus can be open on Thursday. If this were a "real" semester break I'd be out doing things but the roads here are too bad and it's really not been restful worrying at first about the power staying on, and then my door being sleeted shut, and then the garage not opening, and now wondering when I can get fresh food and if there will be anything in the stores.