I shoveled earlier then went shopping. There will be home made cream of 3 kinds of mushroom soup tomorrow if I still have power. If I lose power and freeze to death overnight, then I guess I won't be hungry. I got home, shoveled some more and topped up the bird feeder, since the sweet feathered piggies were slamming it. My juncos eat out of the feeder, but I think they mostly knock the seed onto the ground and eat it there. I've had some sparrows, chickadees, titmice and the odd bluejay. Contrary to popular opinion that they're bullies, the jays were pretty well behaved.

The Weather Channel says another 8-11" tonight. Luckily the wind that makes it so frigid and pings the sleet coming out of the northeast off my windows was also (at last light) keeping my car pretty well cleaned off. I can't wait until it's time for sleep, since I'll get warm again. I remember being warm...

While I was typing, the wind calmed down considerably, so the power-out, frozen-to-death scenario got a bit less likely.