When Tab went out this morning to shovel out our car, he discovered that our neighbor, Byron, had already brushed all the snow off it. Byron and his wife Samantha are most welcome additions to our neighborhood. They very generously let us park in their wide driveway between their two vehicles, a kindness which we greatly appreciate since parking on our street is becoming ever more difficult. I baked them a loaf of cheese bread to thank Byron for his thoughtfulness.

Reading: The fine print on the Cold-Eeze zinc lozenges package and praying that they work the way they are supposed to.

Bumper sticker seen today: "Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?"

Aftermath

11:15 a.m. Tab was in a foul mood this morning. Our toilet got stopped up last night and wouldn't flush after we used the plunger. We asked the twins whether they had flushed anything down there, but they both denied it. Thinking it was just a toilet paper jam, Tab used the snake on it, which seemed to work. But this morning the toilet is still not working properly. The water does drain but very slowly. I asked the twins again, and this time Stephen told me that Matthew had flushed down one of the bathroom cups. Matthew, of course, denies it and blames Stephen. These cups are small, about 3-ounce size, but unfortunately they are plastic and not the usual paper Dixie cup, which would eventually disintegrate.

Tab is furious and wants to know exactly who the culprit is so that he can kill him. Stephen and Matthew, though only 3, have already learned one of the advantages of being a twin: each can blame the other so we can't be exactly sure who is guilty. Tab wishes they had confessed last night before he used the snake as that may have made the problem worse. With a wedding scheduled for this weekend, he doesn't have the time to take the toilet apart to retrieve the cup, and we don't have the funds to call a plumber. For now, though, I think we can live with it until it either finally passes through the drain or until Tab has time to get to the project.

We did get a fair amount of snow last night, nearly 6 inches. Daniel was hoping for a snow day, but the snow stopped early enough that all the major roads were cleared by drive time and his school was open. We'd told him not to get his hopes up. His school didn't even close during that ice storm we had last January, so I didn't expect that it would close today. The snow looks pretty out there, but it is not expected to last. The temperatures are supposed to start warming up, and by the end of the week it may be in the 60s! Bring on Spring!

I was up way too late with the Cruz first revisions. I didn't stop until 2 a.m., and then I noticed a problem with the index file. So I decided to turn in everything but the index tomorrow as it was far too late to continue. I caught a cold at 12:15 a.m. OK, I don't exactly know when I caught the cold, but at 12:15 I became aware of an annoying postnasal drip, which always heralds a cold for me. I'm really not surprised, given how little sleep I'm getting and how stressful the past week has been. I started taking zinc lozenges, extra C, and garlic last night, but I'm not sure how much it will help.

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