Cold Day!!

Today was the first day back to school after winter break.  Ohio is currently in a deep-freeze and just about every school that was supposed to be in school today cancelled.  My school had a scheduled waiver day.  That means only staff was reporting to work for in-services.  I work in the Guidance Office of the high school and needed to get a few things done before the students report back to school so we would be ready for the second semester.  Has half the school year really passed us by already??!!

I ate my toasted ham and cheese sandwich for lunch and got back to work.  I was still having lingering thoughts of my time spent on the marshes of Chincoteague Island, Virginia this past week.  Jon had made me a pretty tasty sandwich in his duck hunting boat when I went out with him and Suzy one fine sunny day.  I thought maybe I could feel like I was still on vacation if I made a duplicate for today's lunch.  It didn't really work out that way.  I still felt like I was at work, but it was a warm and filling lunch for me.   Just as I got back to work the principal stopped in to tell me the superintendent had just called school off for tomorrow!  Temperatures are supposed to be well below zero with a mighty fine wind chill as well and most schools have called off tomorrow already.  Hearing those words made my afternoon fly by and as I left for the day I couldn't help but start plotting how I would spend my bonus day off.  I know one black lab who will be quite happy tomorrow morning when I settle down in my new chair with a cup of coffee and my Kindle instead of heading out the door.

On the way home I stopped to pick up a few things we needed to make the oyster stew we are having for dinner tonight.  We brought a couple hundred oysters home with us and after giving Federico half of them I decided to make stew with some of ours.  I bought some buttermilk, too.  I just might make some buttermilk biscuits to go along with it.  Sounds like a warm and comforting dinner to me.