Cohorts and Others of Ill Repute

It snowed some more overnight and we ended up with about 19 inches/48 cm of snow. My son in law and Violet both spent quite a lot of time outside shoveling the drive and clearing off the two family cars, both of which were sensibly parked right up near the road. My car, which is way at the back of the drive, is still deeply under snow and has many yards of deep snow between it and the nearest of the other two cars. (The drive is very long.)

I've been badly neglecting my car; I haven't driven it for about three weeks, and now I'm regretting that because it doesn't look as if I'll be able to get it out of the driveway for at least another week. I rarely need a car but it doesn't make sense to get rid of it because when I do need to go somewhere I need it; almost nothing is within walking distance here as it was back in MD, and there is no useful public transport as there also was in Maryland.

I had another bad sleep night last night; I was woken up by some acid reflux less than an hour after I went to sleep, and then couldn't get back to sleep again for another couple of hours or more. My son in law brought home some gluten free bread from Wholefoods for me before the weekend, when we were a bit worried about a bread shortage. It's different from the gluten free bread the rest of the family eats and which they can't eat because it contains eggs, and I'm afraid it's the cause of my acid reflux, because it only came on after I had my first piece of the new bread yesterday and nothing else in my diet is any different than usual.

Yesterday while I was working on a granny square for my next blanket project, Eden asked me if I could crochet a scarf for a doll. I said yes, I could, and she asked me to start making one immediately, and then kept asking me if it was almost finished yet. So today I've been crocheting my fingers to the bone finishing the doll's scarf. All the girls really like it, and I'm very happy they are so happy with it. It's made with a beautifully soft acrylic in a pretty off-white colour which they chose from the small selection of random balls of yarn in my stash. I was planning to use the same yarn for some of the squares in my blanket, but it turns out squares made from it are slightly smaller than squares made with my other two colours, so I'm thinking of using it to make a whole off-white blanket after I finish the coloured one since I've got several balls of it on hand. (It doesn't take long to acquire a stash even when you start from almost nothing.)