Snow

This is the view from my front door Friday morning.

Austin got two inches of snow.  While this probably sounds like nothing, less than nothing, to my readers in so many part of the world, Austin only gets visible snow once every few years, and I've never seen this much snow in our neighborhood!  Austin and its drivers can't cope with snow.  We don't have snow plows, or snow tires, or chains, or cold weather driving skills, or enough sand trucks, and our freeways have lots of bridges.  In fact, the freeway I take to work each day is mostly elevated and terribly icy in bad weather.

I figured the forecast of snow was probably another non-starter, with a few blowy flakes that wouldn't even interfere with driving.  However, this was snow made a slippery icy mass on the roads, shutting down the school district, my office, and most ambitions for the day.  Here's a shot of my car, covered.

I knitted. I am knitting again today, after re- re- re-charting the baby sweater for my new book  and setting aside yet another slightly unsatisfactory sample.  I sewed buttons on the rejected sweaters, which are pretty cute and will work for my friend's baby charity baskets - they just aren't quite what I had in mind for the book.