Oh weather, why do I get so invested in you? After building us up with promises of an "Urgent Weather Situation!!" what we have in the photo above is all you managed to deliver. Powdered-sugar frosting on the roofs of houses and our cars. I yearn for snow. We had soft fluffy flurries all night on Saturday night. It was really quite lovely, actually. The roads grew slick, and there was the excitement and promise of snow in the air. I'm holding out hope for this winter, still.

What we have instead is bitter cold and sunny. Callum spent his day playing football with the neighborhood boys, and I spent it huddled under blankets and dogs. It's cold in the house. I watched a movie and a House Hunters International Marathon and knit a scarf.

This scarf, actually. It's yarnmonster's tambourine scarf (In her July archives), but it's my two play-off games, one movie and a House Hunter's International Marathon Scarf. I needed something mustard-y to go go with this...

It's my totally funky new coat that I got on serious sale at Boden last week. I'm not sure I can completely rock this coat, but I sure am going to try. I'm going to use it to distract me from the fact that I want to pull up all my stakes and move to someplace exotic. Just like everybody did in all those episodes of House Hunters International.

I mean seriously, how funky is that? It should be warmer tomorrow, so I'll take it on a test drive.

Oh, and apropos of nothing, if you haven't made the Moo Shu Pork from this month's Everyday Food, I highly recommend it. Go grab yourself a pork tenderloin right now. It was that good. Like real Chinese food! Paired with a chilled Hefeweizen and a wedge of lemon this was about the perfect winter meal. Callum finished reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory today so we're off to watch the Tim Burton/Johnny Depp version. I need my blanket and three dogs. And my scarf.