Five miserable miles on the Dreadmill. I really don't know how you all do it, you who like the TM. My hat's off to you! Then I did about 20 min. of core and weights, and then I dug snow out of my driveway for 3 hours...
 You can see my helpers, whose mother drove by and took pity on me. They were wonderful young men and I was happy to pay them for freeing me so I could go to get DH from the airport... Which brings me to my very important point: I did not run the TM this morning because of the weather! Let us be very clear about that. lol My FIL is still gravely ill and my wonderful husband has been at his bedside for the weekend. I don't leave the DD home alone yet, so I had to grin and bear the TM. It would actually have been a lovely morning for a run, with the winds finally calm and the streets all plowed nicely... Which brings me to my Story of Drama. Remember last week when I ran in the lovely 3-4 inches of snow? Then we got a little more, fine. Then Saturday afternoon came. I know I go on and on too much so I'll summarize: 50-75mph winds, DD and me alone in the house, house shaking and screaming from the exposed windward side, very frightened, awakened every few minutes by gusts. (Disliking the TM so much, and being so tired and emotionally worn, I blew off Sunday's run altogether. Shame on me.) But there is this golf course behind us, you see. And all that snow on the course got hit by all that wind and voila! 3-6 foot drifts. My neighbor has one that is over 10 feet high and people are stopping by to photograph it. This just doesn't happen in Western Washington. (See 12/21/08 entry on that link.) Looking forward to running the roads tomorrow - oh so much!
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