For more Weekend Coffee Share posts, see at Eclectic Alli’s weekend coffee share post for this week: HERE.

If we were having coffee together, this weekend, there would be fresh apples and vanilla yogurt to share with you, as well as English Breakfast and various Oolong teas. I overslept, this morning, and so the Toddy coffee concentrate is a bit strong. I like it, but you might want to give it a pass.

Our week has been about weather, with snow, blowing snow, blizzard, more snow, wind chill advisories, and now, today, another Winter Storm Warning in effect until noon tomorrow, which is Monday. There’s now a widespread Blizzard Warning in our area until 6:00 a.m. The warning covers both of my husband’s two-hour work shifts for the week. He has put the portable jump-starter into the car along with his emergency snow wear, even though he got the car battery checked out, the last time (a couple of weeks ago?) he got the oil changed.

I would share the news of our good fortune during Thursday’s storm. The Scampers got their haircut three hours earlier than planned (and so we did not have to drive after dark), because the grooming salon suffered a cancellation of earlier appointments.

Right now, there is light snow, with wind gusts to 35mph, for a wind chill of -24°F (-31°C). The Scampers are in their kennels (just outside my door), and I am letting them think that I am asleep, so as to not have to let them outside, yet.

I have enjoyed some reading, this past week. A few weeks ago, my husband ordered for me Rachel Mankowitz‘s book from Amazon (where I do not have an account): Yeshiva Girl, which is quite good. I enjoyed reading it, and it’s now on my “Reread” shelves. I also picked up my (very, very old) copy of L.E. Modesitt, Jr.’s Of Tangible Ghosts, which is also reissued with the second novel in the series as Ghosts of Columbia. I remembered reading the book when it was first published and thinking it was quite fantastic; rereading it, again, I found that I had remembered less than a third of it. Oh, my! It was so much more absorbing and involved than I’d remembered it to be. I will next be rereading the next book in his series. If you enjoy SF/Alternate History novels, you might take a look.

If we were having a visit, this afternoon, I would invite me to enjoy another old favorite of mine with me. Yesterday, my package from Barnes & Noble arrived with the 25th Anniversary Edition DVD of The Last Starfighter! I am on an “old favorites” & “new discoveries” binge during this bad weather, when it really is too cold to go outside for more than a couple minutes at a time for taking photos. (There are photos at my The Moments Between blog that include pictures from this week and also from my archives of warmer days, having tired of the snow-upon-snow photos.)

And lastly, the kindness of neighbors. The son of the couple to the north of us, after cleaning up the sidewalks and driveway at his parents’ house, also cleared our sidewalks and put down a salt compound that melts the ice and cuts down on slippage. My husband used to, in his younger years, clear their driveway and sidewalks after clearing our own. Still does that for close neighbors, when he gets out with the snowblower before they do. He is not waking up so early, these days, and is disinclined to get out, other than volunteer work and his almost daily visit to his favorite coffee shop. And his workshop, which we built in the back yard over the past few years.

Thank you for stopping by! I look forward to reading your coffee-share posts during the remaining weekend hours. Best wishes for the coming week!

Much love,
Lizl

P.S. There’s now a blizzard warning in our area from tonight (Sunday) until 6:00 a.m. Monday. Al went out again after his volunteer shift to pick up more milk and sliced chicken breast for me, and for himself, an apple pie and a bag of potato chips.