For reasons that pass beyond understanding, I set my alarm clock last night.<\/p>\n
The trilling of the clock at six came as an unwelcome interruption to sleep on a Saturday. The damage was done, however, and I went downstairs and put on a pot of coffee.<\/p>\n
At 6:30, the snow had not yet begun. A cold drizzle fell from the sky, and the cat sat huddled on the back step. I let him in, put him downstairs. The cat likes to nuzzle feet as one walks, only this morning he bit me in a toe. Naturally, it was the toe on the left foot that was in such pain yesterday. I gave him some food, then fixed a coffee concoction to get the day going.<\/p>\n
Somewhere around seven the snow began to fall.<\/p>\n
Snow has been steady. The snow on the holly tree outside the office window upstairs looks festive.<\/p>\n
My grandmother has sat in the kitchen all morning, watching the snow. Her coffee has long since gone cold, and a half-eaten piece of toast is in front of her.<\/p>\n
I’ve had to close the kitchen door several times; she keeps opening it, to watch through the screen door as the snow falls.<\/p>\n
She speaks aloud. About the snow. About trucks or cars driving down the road. There’s no one there to hear her, and her sentences aren’t conversation pieces; like Austin Powers, she has lost her inner monologue, giving voice to her inner thoughts. I wonder if she’s even aware of doing that.<\/p>\n
The forecast calls for an inch of snow, give or take. We’ve had snow before — about a month ago, I woke to snow on a Sunday morning — but this is the first accumulation of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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