24 January 2004 Saturday

perpetually preparing for company

another chinese new year dinner tonight, at home, with family friends.. so much to be done as always. spending a while outside, shoveling the centimeter of snow off of our sub-mile-long driveway, and then sweeping thoroughly the side steps and front walkway… my fingers are only now beginning to thaw out. grrr/brrr i dunno that i’ll ever be a fan of the cold. tho this snow is very soft and pretty and flurryish and… we should just get a whole bunch more tomorrow so people can be home from work/school on monday, and let the sun take care of clearing it off the driveway when necessary. hey, the weather put the snow and ice there; the weather can take it back. = a proper rule of being responsible for your influence on the environment: leave things the way they were before you came.