What's NOT to love about snow days?

Did you know there is an APP for that? Yessir! An entreprising young senior in high school in my English district, has developped an app that lets you know when there is a snow day, meaning the schools are closed.  No more listening to the radio, searching online, calling the district, sending emails to friends... ETC.  NOPE!  There is an APP for that!

So if you are fortunate like me, and do not work when the schools are closed, OR you can stay home with your children when there is no school, OR you are retired, OR your workplace is closed, then...WOOHOO!

Firstly, you have the luxury of sleeping in.  Or at least knowing you don't HAVE to get out of bed until you darn well feel like it.  Then the day unfurls in a leisurely way, as you do things you normally would not do, because you would be having a "normal" day, NOT a "snow day!"

My "duvet day", as my British friend calls it, was SO fantastic, even though I didn't spend it under a duvet on the couch.  No, a few errands run around town before the roads became impassable; the intoxicating smell of caramalized onions simmering in my slow cooker; a tidied up bulletin board; a warm pumpkin walnut loaf cooling on my counter; finalized travel plans; a few decluttered drawers;  a vigourous forty minute walk with Vimy; an afternoon nap; a soak in a hot tub with a glass of wine; a leisure read in my lazy boy; a new 500 piece puzzle started; catching up on Season Three of X-Company on Netflix; an evening capped off with a leisurely stroll through the neighbnourhood, and a nightcap of Red Wine Hot Chocolate (recipe below!)... ALL added up to a PERFECT SNOW DAY for this lady

It is quite easy for me to become a COMPLETE hedonist on snow days.

On the other hand, what is NOT so thrilling about a snow day? A SECOND SNOW DAY!  The fun has worn off.  The sad reality is, you have to pay for that day of indulgence.  The next morning, you are trapped! Trapped in your house until you can dig yourself, your dog and your vehicle out of all that white S&?*! surrounding you.

Lucky me! Handy bro dropped by and had Jiminy out into my half plowed driveway, in ten minutes flat.  It would have taken me at L*E*A*S*T an hour of digging.  So what did I do? I packed my bags and left to go visit family, where there was much l*e*s*s snow.

X-COMPANY by the way, is an EXCELLENT Canadian 

production about Canada's contribution to the Allied spy network during WW2. 

RED WHITE HOT CHOCOLATE RECIPE

Yummy!