January 2016

By Guus , 30 January 2016

A week after the snow

It's been a week since the big snowstorm, and the roads and most sidewalks are pretty clear. The Custis trail was cleared too, very nice. Except for the connector in Ballston, but I ran on the service road there. The worst were the sidewalks on Washington Blvd.

The weather was great. I ran without gloves.

By Guus , 27 January 2016

Voorleesboeken

We zijn begonnen na de Kerstvakantie, rond 1 januari 2016.

- Een trui voor de giraffe -- verhalen van Burny Bos etc. Favorieten van Nora: heksje Foeksia, Opa & Oma van marianne busser en ron schroder, Familie Gisteren
- Pim & Mien, derde deel. Nora vond het leuk. Aardige, huiselijke verhaaltjes.

By Guus , 26 January 2016

First run after the snow

Snow everywhere. The hill up on Johnson St wasn't cleared, neither was Johnson St itself. Good exercise! Key Blvd was clean.

At Lee Highway had to cross to the other side early to use a path.

Snowy Lynnbrook at night

Our street tonight.

The Federal Government is still closed -- not surprising given that there were people skiing on our street today.

Topic
ourhouse

Snow days

Here are some pictures of our time inside this weekend.

Sasha's work is closed tomorrow and I'm working from home.

Topic
dailylife

Shoveling 2

We had a great snow day today. I shoveled in the evening so we had a nice path on the deck and in the front to our neighbors.

When the boys were in bed we went outside and cleaned the deck and made more paths in the snow on Lynnbrook. Ginny came over, and we chatted with many of our other neighbors too.

We tried to make a snowman but the snow was to powdery and wouldn't stick. Nora had a good time anyway, climbing on the snow mountains and collecting big chunks of snow. There's so much snow in our backyard that she sled from the higher part to the lower part with me.

Nora's school is closed tomorrow and Tuesday.

Last night I re-shoveled the path we made during the day, and in the morning it was still there.

"Vandaag is het een hele special dag. Vandaag gaan we een sneeuwpop maken!"

Topic
dailylife

Still snowing

It's still snowing, more than 24 hours later. The paths we made in the morning are completely covered again.

Topic
dailylife

Shoveling

We bought a small shovel for Nora, she loves it.

Last year she tried to shovel with our big one but the snow gets very heavy. This is the perfect size.

Here she is, before dinner. Sasha asked: "shall we read a book or do you want to shovel?"

Topic
dailylife
By Guus , 22 January 2016

Run before the snow

Ran in the morning, an hour or two before the first snowflakes came down.