Snow, Cold, and Candy

As I sit here at my rented desk, in my rented house, looking out my rented window, at the rented (no longer welcome) snow, I am feeling a little stabby. The work on our home has completely come to a halt because of the snow and frigid temps.

Dave went out to the lot about 2 weeks ago and here is what he saw, WALLS!! SWEET, SWEET FOUNDATION WALLS!

This will be our beautiful walk-out basement

Looking from the garage side...

The next step would have been for the contractors to come in and add back-fill to the spots where there will be, well no-house, like under the garage and in between things so our house doesn't slide down the slope.

However, the 20+ inches of snow made everything look like this:

(thanks for the image, google image search)

Oh wait, that is Lake Shore Drive, when I was out of town, I'm still completely amazed that this happened. I blame it strictly on Chicagoan's stubbornness. "There is no way Lake Michigan will have 17-25 foot waves, I'm not dealing with taking the Kennedy or Elston home...it will be fine" Hence why they got stuck, literally it was freezing so fast that people's cars were glued to the road...I'm just glad most of my former bull-headed neighbors are safe. I miss you Chi-town!

So while I'm waiting for construction to begin again, I will sit here and eat all the non-white conversation hearts...

Now you know where all the good ones went!

Say a prayer for warm weather so that dastardly snow will melt and we can fill our ground with "fill" (whatever that is). Then I can get back to important things like kitchens...