The first thing I said when I woke up this morning was "Oh my God, it's snowing again."

We finally got thawed out enough by lunch and after calling the local Super Fresh to make sure they were open, trudged the half mile to the mini-mall on Harford Road. Just to make sure we didn't shop hungry, we stopped at the Calgary Cattle Company for lunch.

The bartender and his manager were the only guys in the entire place and people were streaming in from the moment we arrived at noon until we left an hour later, but he still served us with a smile and even threw together an ice cream and fudge topped brownie sundae even though he had to make it himself behind the bar.

After that we went to Super Fresh and got milk, eggs, bread, butter and frozen lasagne: the essentials we'd been missing all weekend.

Donna drove up from Dundalk to pick up Suz and cure them both of their cabin sickness. While they were gone, all my neighbors decided to shovel out our street rather than wait for the plows to finally come by.

How's that for community spirit?

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