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We got a snow day!!!

We got a snow day!!!

We got a snow day!!!

It snowed here on Friday night and all day Saturday. The storm was our first nor’easter of the year. They are fierce storms with tons of wind, that drop tons of precipitation on us. Mainer’s pay attention when it’s a nor-easter because it can mean power outages, 3 feet of snow, and flooding.  

This was supposed to be the big storm of the season, as this year has been kind of snow bust.  

It was a storm, but not as big as they predicted.

However, the snow was wet, and heavy, and pretty and made dealing with it a little difficult.  

At noon yesterday, I reached out to see if we were going to open. I was told yes.  

I was told I didn’t need to come in, but I said that I couldn’t ask my team to come in if I wasn’t willing to do it myself.  

Fun fact: Most people aren’t permitted here to call out for weather. We live in a snowy climate. As I like to say, if you don’t want to drive in the snow, move to Florida.  

Anyway.  

I showered, and was getting dressed when my phone rang. It was Chef telling me he’d changed his mind. He’d driven around, ala superintendents in Kentucky, and determined that the roads we kind of crappy.  

I spent the next 30 minutes calling and texting the staff and our reservations. 

By 1:00, I was back in bed, blanket and pillow over my head, fast asleep.

I slept on and off until 5:00, when our smart light bulbs turned on.  

I was still in bed, when Adam called to ask me to come in to town to have dinner after he got off work.  

Seriously! Dinner out on a Saturday night.  

I then moved to the couch and hung out there until 7:30. I got up, showered again, and drove in to town. 

I had dinner at his restaurant.  

As I was sitting there, I kept seeing people I didn’t know.  

Who is that? Is that person new? What about that one?

I know most of his staff. Most by name. And some of them I consider my friends.  

It eventually dawned on me that these were Saturday night people.

I haven’t been to eat out in Portland on a Saturday night in probably 5 years. That’s why I didn’t know them,

Dinner was amazing as always.  

We came home, watched one TV show, and by 12:30 were in bed.  

I then slept from 1:00 a.m. until noon, in a deep coma like sleep.

I don’t know if I was that tired, but if felt glorious.  

Until I got up and headed to work.

Fun fact: Snow days as an adult are not as fun as they were when we were kids.

EVERYONE at work tonight was off their game.

First, we all thought it was Wednesday, because that’s the first day of our week.  

There were stupid mistakes. 

And just all-round weirdness.  

We were all happy when it was over.  

Based on the forecast for the next 10 days, it’s probably our last chance of serious snow this year. Of course, it is Maine, so it can snow into Maine.  

Luckily, it’s Sunday night. I have the next two days off, to recover from my snow day.