Reminders.

You don't have to look far here before you remember we just had a blizzard.

Wednesday was our first full day back in school with our students - Monday was a teacher workday, Tuesday was a two-hour delay, and yesterday we tried to establish normal routines again. My teacher friends and I catch ourselves asking each other and our students what they did over "break." Seven snow days in a row made for a nice long break. The worst part about being back is that there are sidewalks that are still not cleared. They are buried under the snow accumulation and extra snow pushed over from the roads. It's common to see students waiting for the bus standing on five or six foot piles of snow and walking in the street. We need it to warm up. There's no shovel strong enough for these piles.

Another reminder gathered outside our front door on Sycamore. The trash and recycling trucks couldn't get down our street last week. I'm hoping they can scrape by this morning. We need to get rid of this stuff. When four adults, a baby and two dogs are stuck inside for ten days, they make a lot of trash.

And they do a lot of online shopping.