Happy Ground Hog's Day! We were certainly glad to hear that Phil the Groundhog is calling for an early spring. It can't come too soon! Especially for Scott. He has had an intense winter up in Kalamazoo. So much so that they actually closed the University! They had horrible ice and snow with actual temperatures below 0 degrees. And to top it off, the wind was blowing causing blizzard and white out conditions. Even with the horrible weather, the University attempted to keep school open, but most of the students could not get out to their classes as the roads were pure ice. They even had a 24 car pile up on the freeway midweek near Kalamazoo. A lot of the students/professors and staff commute to the school or take buses to classes and the roads were impassable. So it was school on and off all week. They even recommended the students pack up extra meals from the dining halls to take back to their rooms so they wouldn't have to venture out in the bitter cold too often. Scott was happy to stay in his dorm room and catch up with homework as well as computer video games. And stay warm!
We also had some snow and ice in Baltimore, but nothing like Michigan! I was out shoveling our driveway a few times, but the weather was not so bad to keep us from getting to work. I was happy that work slowed down a bit so I could get out early and run some errands as the weekend rolled around. We have been trying to treat our neighbors to dinner for Thank You for having them watch our house and pets while we were gone at Christmas. I figured Super Bowl Sunday would be a good day to have everyone over, so I started shopping and cooking on Thursday and Friday. I was glad I went out early since the weather started to turn again at the end of the week-ice and snow. I missed all the shopping crowds, and actually ran into a few of my previous coworkers as well as some new ones. So it looked like I had a great start to the Super Bowl weekend.
We actually had a warm up on Saturday. A pick up truck pulled up in front of the house in the morning and a gentleman asked if we would be interested in topping our birch trees in the front. As it was, I have been looking at different companies to see if we could get a price quote on trimming the trees this winter. When we had to cut down the Bradford Pear trees in the backyard, the company recommended we top our birch trees so they grow up rather than out. And it is usually a bit cheaper in the winter to trim the trees. The county has been busy trimming all the maple trees along our streets recently and I even asked if they did residential work. We are so happy to see them finally trim the trees along the street. I am really tired of having to replant grass seed in our front yard since it has become so much more shady in the past years. And also under our 3 birch trees. Plus one of the birch tree trunks was starting to lean towards the house and over the garage. So we had all 3 trees trimmed and the large tree trunk cut down for a reasonable price. Tom was very impressed with how quickly the trimmed the trees and cleaned up all the mess. We were also impressed to watch them climb up the trees! It will be interesting to see how the trees look this spring.
I had also planned on spending Saturday afternoon at the large outlet mall near our house with Mom Bozyk. I asked Tom to come along to help load/unload her scooter. I had some scrub pants to return and I thought it would be nice for mom to get out and cruise the mall in her scooter(it is a huge mall), and maybe go out to dinner. I had a few errands to run with Allison first. I needed to drop off a care package to the post office for Scott, and Allison had a package to mail to Gma and Gpa Seitz. We also had a few grocery items to pick up. I was trying to see if I could bake one of my favorite recipes from my grandparents. Pastizzi's are ricotta cheese filled pastries, like meat pies, from Malta. My grandmother used to make the best tasting cheese and ground beef filled pastizzi's and I found a recipe online that I thought would be amazing to try. I was busy making the dough in the morning, but needed a few more ingredients for the filling. Unfortunately, by the time I finished the errands with Allison, I was starting to feel sick. I didn't want to pass on a cold to my mom, so I opted out of the trip to the mall with her
By Sunday morning I could not get out of bed. I stayed there for 3 days. I caught something pretty bad-guess it was my turn to be sick. Sadly we had to cancel our Super Bowl party. I felt so bad since we had invited everyone over to our house and I made all the food. Allison decided to take some of the goodies and headed over to her friend's house to catch the game. Tom decided it was the most boring Super Bowl game he had ever seen. But he loved the Buffalo Chicken dip. Plus we were not really rooting for the Patriots and of course they ended up winning. So I guess we did not miss much. Except for me since I missed two days of work the following week.
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