Who turned winter back on?

So for the last couple of weeks, checking weather.com, I'd been seeing hints of rain/snow showers over upcoming days. "Hah," I laughed, having long experienced the folly of believing anything on the 10-day outlook on weather.com, at least when pertaining to the Pacific Northwest. "I'll believe it when I see it."

Today I saw it. On the way into work this morning we had small sputtery flakes trying to get going, and partway through the morning solarbird informed me that it was snowing like crazy in Shoreline. When she got home (ahead of me, as per usual), she reported that Kenmore had also seen a bit of accumulation, but it didn't really start up again until shortly before my usual time to come home. By then we were getting sort of snowy-icy pellets, a bit too strong to be a flurry but not yet sticking to anything.

As I write this, it is now snowing like mad in Kenmore and the road our driveway rolls down into has been pretty well covered. It'll be interesting to see whether this keeps up all night, and indeed whether I'll get to make it into work tomorrow, or whether we'll have to call a snow day. (Considering how distracting things at work have been this week, I'd actually get more done if I could VPN in from home!)

It's very, very weird anyway seeing this kind of snow on the last day of February here. Dara snorted when I said this and staunchly insisted that February is still winter. I agree with her on that, but most of the time Seattle doesn't!

Meanwhile, I have finished the seventh Aubrey-Maturin novel, The Surgeon's Mate, and we did watch the last BSG, "Dirty Hands". Commentary on both of these will be forthcoming. And oh yes, I made it to Isengard!

Sunday through Wednesday miles: 13.3
Miles out of Hobbiton: 1803.8
Miles out of Isengard: 10.8
Miles to Minas Tirith: 775.2