{"id":4239,"date":"2019-01-31T15:36:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T21:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/?p=4239"},"modified":"2019-02-03T09:35:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T15:35:30","slug":"back-in-wisconsin-in-the-deep-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/31\/back-in-wisconsin-in-the-deep-freeze\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in Wisconsin in the Deep Freeze"},"content":{"rendered":"

At first, but now – when I started writing this, Saturday, Groundhogs Day – all of a sudden we’re thawing.<\/p>\n

I got back last Sunday around 4:00 in the afternoon. The kids had already had a snow day on the Wednesday prior, and more snow was on the way. The airlines sent me a bunch of messages that I could change my flight, and I bit, leaving Seattle at 5:30 AM instead of 1:30 PM.<\/p>\n

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And of course, the snow was not nearly as bad as predicted. I went out on Monday morning and shoveled about 6 inches, with snow blower help from the Rev. next door, then went to work. School was canceled, but given the prediction for bitter cold the next couple of days both Rach & I predicted that MMSD would be sorry they’d closed Monday.<\/p>\n

And, Madison Schools stayed closed until Friday – they kept pushing back the exams – and even UW-Madison closed Wednesday<\/a>, and they almost NEVER<\/a> close.<\/p>\n

In spite of the cold and snow, my first week back was surprisingly not terrible. The iSchool graduate students were requesting their practicum placements for summer by Friday, so I had lots of emails with requests attached to put into a spreadsheet, and several meetings with students to talk about placements. I had the normal amount of committee meetings, and two retirement parties. My online class had a meeting Monday night, while my face-to-face class Weds. was canceled due to cold, so I had to do a little rejiggering of that course content.<\/p>\n

On the food front, I helped serve the pantry meal on Tuesday morning – it was lightly attended due to the cold. Terese made a potato and Canadian bacon hash that we served with eggs to order, and blender Hollandaise<\/a>. I made oatmeal – Terese had organized a bunch of toppings, nuts and dried cranberries and jam, and I found some brown sugar and butter pats and made fried apples. I had my oatmeal with butter and apples – yum.<\/p>\n

I also helped with the Eat Smart Guides<\/a> Sicily dinner Thursday, when it was starting to warm up.<\/p>\n

The day off Wednesday was a gift. I started the day by baking rolls with some of the leftover oatmeal from the breakfast.<\/p>\n

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Oat rolls in the pans<\/p><\/div>\n

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Warm oat rolls for Wednesday brekkie<\/p><\/div>\n

I got a bunch of recordings made for my online course, and the Froscia<\/em>, Sicilian ricotta pie, was all baked and cooling by 8:00 PM instead of like 10:30 if I’d done it after work.<\/p>\n

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Ricotta pie – Ed Chwae’s house-made ricotta – delicious<\/p><\/div>\n

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Plated & ready for chocolate crumble topping<\/p><\/div>\n

Al & Emma came over for dinner Friday night, and we had pasta with smoked salmon we imported from Seattle for them as thanks for cat sitting, in a tomato cream sauce, and leftover Christmas cookies for dessert.<\/p>\n

The other big thing happening this week is the Lake Mendota Statue of Liberty came back<\/a>, for Winter Carnival. She’s an inflatable now – I think I kind of prefer the old one.<\/p>\n

The Statue’s return got me rooting through old pictures on Friday night, and I scanned a bunch, both the statue, winter 1979, and some pics of me visiting my brother when he lived in the Castro in SF, fall 1978.<\/p>\n

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And along with the warmup it’s now light after 5:00 – this is what it looked like walking home Friday Feb. 1.<\/p>\n

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