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Snow falling = I'm starving?

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Suze:
It is blowing and snowing right now, We are under blizzard warnings (Ohio for anyone keeping track of the weather)

I have dug the back door out 4 times since 1pm (it's 6pm now) and should go out again.

Question for you all

When it is snowing and blowing like this do you want to eat everything in the kitchen?  I have been hungry since I came home from work.  Yes, I did eat lunch and dinner.

kathrynne:
You use more energy just staying warm when it's cold out, and looking at the snow as it falls can make you feel colder even in your nice warm livingroom. You also need to store some energy for digging out, right?

Oh, yeah. With all the snow we've gotten this year there's been plenty of extra food consumed, and not just by us. Our critters' pets in the backyard go through more birdseed when it's cold and/or snowy. They also need the extra energy to keep warm.

It's fun, though. The cats sit at the patio door and watch the birds and squirrels, especially loving it when I sprinkle seed right on the steps, and the parrot (a tropical bird) just loves "talking" to his outside critters. He gets really excited when it's snowing.

momto3daughters:
So how are you liking our Blizzard of 07??? Personally I think it SUCKS. I shoveled the drive twice just in 45 mins so hubby could get in from work. My neighbor went off in the ditch we all went out and dug her out and got her into her drive.

Schools are all ready cancled and hubby is willing to take the point and miss work tomorrow. Almost all roads around us are closed, he barely made it home.

As to the eatting YES im extra hungry, its the burning of calories from the cold and all the shoveling. Ill take a pic of ours tomorrow and show you, maybe us ohioans can compare the damage of all this crap. Were now getting the ice balls and they HURT when they hit.

hobish:
Oh, you are so not alone in that! I am looking out the window at work watching it come down. So far i've eaten 3 bowls of chinese veggies and rice and have been dreaming all day of cooking up a nice juicy steak when i get home (not that we have any) and then maybe finishing it off with my spinach & ricotta white pizza that is in the fridge ... after that a few cups of hot cocoa and then maybe some chips and salsa.  ;D
Not that i could ever eat that much at once; but that is what has been going through my head.

modified to add...I'm in NJ. We've only got a few inches, if that. I hope the stuff that hit you comes our way. I  want a good snowed in day.

Suze:
Just went out again and shoveled out the back door -- Knee high again, had to put my sholder to it to get it open enough to get out to clear it.

Momto3daughters - whereabouts are you? sounds like you are south of me.  About 50 miles north of Dayton, we just have a LOT of blowing snow.

I gave up on the driveway. I got the car in it and am now fighting a battle just to keep the door passable.

At least the car is within 3 feet of the street.  So I can just gun it out.  I THINK that they have plowed the street at least once today. 

<<<sigh>>>

you would think that with the garage the snowplows live in just down the street that we would have the best cleared street in town.....but, noooooo, they get to the corner and raise the blade. (town trucks, in town)  so we have one little path down the street even after every street in town is clear.

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