We learned towards the end of the school day on Thursday that school on Friday would be cancelled due to inclement weather. It’s a funny thing, most teachers I know despise snow days, for they see it as taking away from their summer vacation (snow days are added on at the end of the year as meaningless half days of school). Students, on the other hand, rejoiced as they heard the news.
I spent the early part of the snow day shoveling out my car and our front yard. The snow was light and fluffy, and fairly easy to move around. We are fortunate to have a small garden area in the front of our house which serves as a place to dump snow from the sidewalk and our cars – not all houses on our street have such a high end luxury, and end up stacking snow between cars on the street. After about 45 minutes of shoveling, we had cleared everything pretty well, and the snow that fell after was not very substantial.
The rest of the day was spent working in my office and then some couch time with the chihuahuas. An early start to the weekend.