Sunday Short: Snow, Ice, and Relaxation

The big events are always fun to capture and seem like things that deserve some sort of record. This week I enjoyed a few small things so much that it occurred to me that a short entry here and there about the everyday things might be nice.

This week was a quiet one. We were both grateful for that because the two weeks before were anything but.

The weather in the valley was crazy though with snow and ice. On Wednesday morning we got up at 5:30 to run our 6x400 interval workout. The ground was wet and it was extremely cold when we left the house. We checked to make sure it was safe, and finding no ice, we went on our merry way. After our warm up and two of the 400s were done, we both felt a sharp drop in temperature which was dramatic enough that we could not attribute it to general chill. Extreme cold became bitter cold, but we kept running. During the next two 400s, the road got slicker and slicker until we could no longer run safely. We walked up to a new street that was much rougher and more runable with ice. On the way we could actually see the water freezing into ice. Small white bubbles would form underneath the surface and you could actually hear it crackling. We did get to the safe road and finished our work out before carefully scooting home. We both thought it was one of the more fabulous morning. We’d never had the opportunity to see the world freeze, and had never considered that the temperature might drop so severely so early in the morning. It was fun and made our warm showers even better.

On Thursday it snowed about 4 inches and OSU, in typical fashion was open. Our run that morning was great too. The snow was sticky and made crunching noises when we ran, but the world was quiet and the snow stuck in our eyelashes. There’s nothing like snow and ice to distract from physical exertion! Friday we were delayed 2 hours and had the lovely opportunity to sleep in. It was fabulous. We both vote that we always work from 10 to 5. The weekend was just as relaxing with pizza night on Friday (yum! Go Joe!), a day of catching up with small tasks and hobbies before going to my mom’s to eat a delicious dinner and play pinochle on Saturday, and a similar day on Sunday topped off with dinner with Kathryn and Ben. We finished the weekend feeling fabulous and I have almost 60 of my 9x9 quilt squares done!