Escape

On Tuesday. the Weather.com prediction indicated a couple of inches of snow coming our way, which was fine because we were headed south anyway, and it was, after all, just a couple of inches. But by the time we woke up around 5:30 Wednesday morning, there was already a four-inch coating of snow and it was still coming.

It made packing the car a bit difficult, and slowed us down for the first 20 miles or so, but by the time we reached Rochester we were out of the snow and into the rain. I'm sure there will be a lot to clean up when we get home, but at the moment I don't care so much because we are sitting in New Jersey on a beautifully sunny day visiting with family.

The trip down, always long, was marked by one little bit of drama, sort of. We started hearing disturbing noises coming from Karen's car. With over 170,000 miles on the Subaru, noises can mean anything, or nothing. It turns out, though, that the noise was nothing but a plastic mud shield that had come loose and was brushing against the tire. Drama over.

I'm loving the combination of the Internet and portable computing and digital cameras, which allow we to post pictures and update this blog even when I'm not home. We've also been able to keep up on the status of snow in our area, not just through weather sites, but using a Web cam that's pointed at Wolfeboro Bay so that I can actually see how much snow is on the ground (on more accurately, on the docks, where it won't have been shoveled or plowed).

I just wish I had a Web cam pointed out my front window, so I could tell if the New Durham plow truck had left a pile of ice in front of my driveway.

I guess some things will just have to remain surprises.