To Do List for a Snow Day

Well, Philadelphia has been hit with 16" of snow and that means a SNOW DAY for me! Hooray!

I happened to start my day off quite pleasantly with three hours of my morning spent talking on the phone with my two sisters and my newly married daughter. How lovely it was to just chat on the phone instead of through text, email or some other electronic medium or network. I haven't done that in quite some time, so even though I am not really a phone person, it was a fun change of pace.

I really do love snowy days and have no objections to winter spreading her white mantle upon the earth, I mean, it is winter after all. If I didn't like the seasons I would be planning my move to the southern states. No, the biggest challenge is to spend my day wisely and not fritter it away online. This has become terribly easy for me during the past few years and I have to say, I don't like it.

What I have decided is the best thing to do, is to compose "To do" lists. I did this the last time I had a snow day and I got quite a bit accomplished including putting up more tinctures and writing on my blog.

So today's list of things to accomplish are:

~Set up the large triangle loom and start shawl

~Finish one of my wrist warmers

~Create my herbal journal for my herbal ally, Lavender.

I will let you know later how that turned out so stay tuned for further updates!

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