As the storm closes in . . .

[SweetWitch]

What is your favorite activity while snowbound? The past year or two, our friends and neighbors down south are learning to adapt to such weather, but they have yet more to learn.

What's your favorite comfort food?
Do you fight the long lines at stores to stock up for weather emergencies?
Do you have a favorite snuggle buddy?
How do you occupy yourself?

My soup is simmering on the stove and burrito meat is in the slow cooker. A happy fire blazes in the fireplace and there's a quilt in the frame waiting to be finished.

What's yours?

 

[sr71plt]

My favorite activity while snowbound is wishing the snow would melt off the driveway of its own accord.

 

[Hypoxia]

What is your favorite activity while snowbound?

Driving to Guatemala.

 

[YoursSINSerely]

I did go to the grocery store today, but only because I was out of veggies and yogurt for the week. Yes, it was crazy in there, but not with people stocking up for the storm, but rather the Super Bowl! I never saw so many men shopping today as for a normal storm. They were definitely super bowl party shopping.

I did fill up the car. The gas station was crazier than the grocery store.

I stopped at Petco to pick up cat food and kitty litter. He hates to pee in it, but its the only place to go these days.

During a storm, I dream about having a heated driveway installed and how much more it would cost than having just a plain asphalt one. Spring is coming.

 

[SweetWitch]

Driving to Guatemala.

Can't drive there from here. I'd love to go.

I did go to the grocery store today, but only because I was out of veggies and yogurt for the week. Yes, it was crazy in there, but not with people stocking up for the storm, but rather the Super Bowl! I never saw so many men shopping today as for a normal storm. They were definitely super bowl party shopping.

I did fill up the car. The gas station was crazier than the grocery store.

I stopped at Petco to pick up cat food and kitty litter. He hates to pee in it, but its the only place to go these days.

During a storm, I dream about having a heated driveway installed and how much more it would cost than having just a plain asphalt one. Spring is coming.

I had to get the pork for the burritos I wanted to make and saw a man buy 10 gallons of milk. Either he's feeding an orphanage or he's planning on being trapped for a couple of months.

 

[YoursSINSerely]

Can't drive there from here. I'd love to go.



I had to get the pork for the burritos I wanted to make and saw a man buy 10 gallons of milk. Either he's feeding an orphanage or he's planning on being trapped for a couple of months.

Who has room in their refrigerator to hold ten gallons of milk? LOL

 

[SweetWitch]

Who has room in their refrigerator to hold ten gallons of milk? LOL

Not to mention we're only expecting 3-6 inches of snow. That means we'll be trapped only until the snow plows come through in the early morning.

 

[glynndah]

They keep revising the forecast. It was four to eight inches of snow; now it's rain, then freezing rain; possibly sleet and then maybe snow.

I hate winter!

 

[SweetWitch]

They keep revising the forecast. It was four to eight inches of snow; now it's rain, then freezing rain; possibly sleet and then maybe snow.

I hate winter!

Give it a couple of hours. You'll have a heatwave and have to dig out your sandals.

 

[TxRad]

Snowbound?

Is that some form of cold fetish?

Houston is a fun place during any kind of frozen activity. Most people grab a couple of six packs and head for the nearest freeway overpass to watch the carnage. Most people down here can't drive in the rain much less on ice.

 

[Handley_Page]

Snowbound?

Is that some form of cold fetish?

Houston is a fun place during any kind of frozen activity. Most people grab a couple of six packs and head for the nearest freeway overpass to watch the carnage. Most people down here can't drive in the rain much less on ice.

I have a major Motorway within a couple of miles, with a decent bridge. I really must try it as a viewing location next time we have a baddun.

 

[Ardent1]

Snowbound? I thought that's what the skis were for. Oh, okay. I guess that's it.

 

[shutterpsb]

Wife and I used to play Yahtzee, but I got tired of losing. That's how we ended up with our second son.

 

[redzinger]

Who has room in their refrigerator to hold ten gallons of milk? LOL

Who needs a refrigerator when it's cold outside?

I have a tiny fridge, if I'm buying lots of food or drink, I'll just stick it outside the back door. Nine months of the year, it's fine out there.

The exception is meat or anything the local vermin (foxes - I hate them) would nick. A couple of Christmas Eves ago, I was out on my bike and saw a fox dragging a massive turkey carcass still partially wrapped in plastic across the road towards his den in the local nature reserve. Someone from the nearby block of flats had obviously not been able to fit it in their freezer. Their Christmas table must've been a touch bare.

 

[SweetWitch]

Wife and I used to play Yahtzee, but I got tired of losing. That's how we ended up with our second son.

Oops.

Who needs a refrigerator when it's cold outside?

I have a tiny fridge, if I'm buying lots of food or drink, I'll just stick it outside the back door. Nine months of the year, it's fine out there.

The exception is meat or anything the local vermin (foxes - I hate them) would nick. A couple of Christmas Eves ago, I was out on my bike and saw a fox dragging a massive turkey carcass still partially wrapped in plastic across the road towards his den in the local nature reserve. Someone from the nearby block of flats had obviously not been able to fit it in their freezer. Their Christmas table must've been a touch bare.

Major bummer.

Snowbound?

Is that some form of cold fetish?

Houston is a fun place during any kind of frozen activity. Most people grab a couple of six packs and head for the nearest freeway overpass to watch the carnage. Most people down here can't drive in the rain much less on ice.

Stalker.

 

[TxRad]

Stalker.

In the snow?

That's cruel.

Come on over to the dark... uh... warm side and bring your bikini.

73 here today.

 

[SweetWitch]

In the snow?

That's cruel.

Come on over to the dark... uh... warm side and bring your bikini.

73 here today.

My bikini days are long behind me, doll.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Oh my! The Playground has come to AH!

Whats your favorite snow color?

 

[TxRad]

Oh my! The Playground has come to AH!

Whats your favorite snow color?

In your case JB, I'd say yellow fits you perfectly.

 

[FantasyXY]

Where I live snowbound means you are fucking snowbound, and truly not going anywhere for a while. Unless you plan ahead it also means no power no heat, no water, no flush toilets, and no cooking. Even if you plan ahead it always means no way to leave home... Isn't that the definition of snow bound? I always laugh when it starts to snow here and the transplants run to the store to buy perishables. Whenever I see someone doing that I know they have no idea what they are in for.

Anyway, to get back to the subject the OP intended... I'd love nothing more than to spend the time while snowed in doing the nasty, but instead surviving is somehow much higher on the list. And with only survival water available, bathing isn't on the list of things that can be done. That makes doing the nasty pretty unappealing in my book.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

I hear you. Although I do cross stitch.

I learned quilting a year ago from an old lady who's done it all her life. Very very tempting, but if I took that up I'd never do anything else.

My soup is simmering on the stove and burrito meat is in the slow cooker. A happy fire blazes in the fireplace and there's a quilt in the frame waiting to be finished.

What's yours?

 

[Hypoxia]

OK, up here in our mountain hamlet, what we actually did when snowbound (stuck in the house for one week without power, stuck in another house for a week with only snowmelt for water, and no firewood in either) was:

* Screw a little.
* Talk a lot when stuck in our own house, and avoiding talking when stuck with the politically absurd in-laws.
* Very limited computer use with no AC power; the phone lines were still up but laptop batteries only last so long.
* Read a lot, by candlelight when necessary.
* Write a lot, pen and papers, actual writing.
* Wind the crank-up radio for music and news.
* Play duets on our own acoustic instruments.
* Our propane tank was full so cooking was no problem. Stovetop, not inefficient baking. Cioppino is our traditional snowbound entree.

Which of these was our *favorite* snowbound activity? Other than sex under the covers? Probably reading and writing beside banks of candles (helping keep the room warm) while the wind-up radio purred classical or jazz. We snuggled under comforters, glanced out windows at falling and packed snow, traced the snow-tracks of wildlife -- deer, turkeys, rabbits, fox, feral housecats, and once a puma -- and awaited snowplows.

 

[SweetWitch]

I hear you. Although I do cross stitch.

I learned quilting a year ago from an old lady who's done it all her life. Very very tempting, but if I took that up I'd never do anything else.

It's a true art form. Some of the quilts in my family are nothing short of stunning. The one I wanted my mother to give me, the one she took 18 months to finish, went to my brother. It's truly gorgeous, but it's his and there's a reason for it. She started it while he was in a coma after a bad car wreck. While she sat in the hospital all those weeks and in all the months she was at home trying to get him back on his feet, she worked on the quilt. By the time he was on his feet again and well on his way to an almost full recovery, she was finished. It was always his, but it's still the one I wanted.

 

[Handley_Page]

OK, up here in our mountain hamlet, what we actually did when snowbound (stuck in the house for one week without power, stuck in another house for a week with only snowmelt for water, and no firewood in either) was:

* Screw a little.
* Talk a lot when stuck in our own house, and avoiding talking when stuck with the politically absurd in-laws.
* Very limited computer use with no AC power; the phone lines were still up but laptop batteries only last so long.
* Read a lot, by candlelight when necessary.
* Write a lot, pen and papers, actual writing.
* Wind the crank-up radio for music and news.
* Play duets on our own acoustic instruments.
* Our propane tank was full so cooking was no problem. Stovetop, not inefficient baking. Cioppino is our traditional snowbound entree.

I always felt that there is a place for a wind-up gramophone, even in today's digital chaos.

PS. There's a chance for Wind or Solar -power stuff, too.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

In your case JB, I'd say yellow fits you perfectly.

For an old wino like you your color's gotta be red.