Good news, more or less...

According to the weekly paper, the snow earlier this week has brought the snowpack level in the Upper San Juan Basin to 90% of average, while the snowpack at Wolf Creek is at 78%. That doesn't do much toward changing our current drought classification (extreme), but it sure does help.

We woke up to another couple of inches on our driveway. More snow is predicted this weekend.

Until I can get someone to properly diagnose the Nissan, I'm going to minimize its use.

Cheers...

Oh, my achin'...

Blyeah. Today sure felt like a wasted day.

I spent most of it (until nearly 2 pm) at the store. When I went home, I tried to nap, only to be awakened by phone calls. When I got up, it was time to go back to the store and pick up Galina (we shared the van today; I'm leaving the Nissan under the porch for emergencies, at least until the snow is cleared off the road).

By the time I got up, a couple more inches of snow had fallen. We closed the store and went home, and I got stuck going up the driveway. I also got stuck backing back down the driveway, forcing me to call Drew to help me out. Once he got here, things went fairly quickly, and we freed the van, finished backing it down the driveway, and then got it all the way up to the house.

After calling Drew I grabbed the rope from the Nissan and a shovel and headed back down to the car. Halfway there, I went down hard, right on my butt. I'm pretty sure there's no major damage, but climbing stairs is - for now - a memorable experience.

For dinner, I mashed some firm tofu, added some low-fat mayo and some premixed spices, and darned if the result didn't taste like egg salad! For some strange reason, the instructions on the side of this "Tofu Hero" product say to consume the mixture within 2 days. I'd never noticed instructions so specific before; I suspect it may have something to do with the mayo.

* * *We got a trio of films from Netflix yesterday. We watched The Man Who Cried, and I think the film was named after my having watched it last night. The story is that of a Jewish girl whose father leaves Russia in 1927 for America, determined - like so many others - to send for his family after having saved some money.

The village in which the girl lives is destroyed in a pogrom, and the rest of the film follows her to England and France, where she gets involved with some interesting people, among whom is a gypsy (played by Johnny Depp, who may end up getting typecast into that niche). I'll only add that the events in the main part of the film occur on the eve of and in the early days of World War II.

I don't know why I liked this film. Certainly, the story is not what I'd call powerful or uplifting. On the other hand, the characters made me cry, made me laugh, and made me care about what happened to them.

Cheers...