SNOW DAY (or not)

Baking cookies is my favorite snow day activity, so even though technically the storm passed us by, I got busy in the kitchen. And at one point both the roads and the sky were clear so I even got to the gym.

  Then I sat in my kitchen drinking coffee and eating cookies and remembering another Storm That Wasn’t. In the 1970’s I was teaching at #27 School. It was April and all the schools were open. But even as school was starting, rumors started flying faster than spitballs that we would be closing. A terrible storm was coming from the west. It was being tracked from Erie to Buffalo to Batavia. The lunch ladies started serving lunch right after they’d finished serving breakfast. No one wanted the lunches to go to waste and everyone wanted the kids to be fed before they had to go home. I think school closed around noon, and the teachers were right behind the students in leaving the building. We raced home and we waited for the storm to arrive. We waited and we waited. We waited for nothing. The storm got as far as Batavia and then headed out into Lake Ontario and missed Rochester completely. We talked for years about the Storm That Wasn’t. Now we have a sequel.

Day 33: 11,013 Steps   YTD: 295,651 Steps   Goal: 308,000 Steps