Pork malfeasance

After we took Mom to the airport yesterday to start her journey back to Knoxville, Aidan and I went to Denny's for a late breakfast. Build Your Own Grand Slam breakfasts were just the antidote to a chilly, gray morning and we both earned membership in the Clean Plate Club.

The people in the booth behind us left just before us and as we passed their table, Aidan said, "They committed crimes against bacon!" They had not eaten all of their bacon, which is a travesty of culinary justice in Aidan's opinion; he is, after all, a great fan of bacon.

He was still shaking his head in disbelief as we left the restaurant.

Snow behind

We woke up on Saturday to find snow on the ground, and while that is normally not news in central New York in December, it was our first snowfall of at least one inch this winter season. And it was barely an inch, with the tips of grass blades poking through. Our snowfall this winter season is a whopping 1.7" of snow.

I'll say it again: 1.7 inches of snow so far this winter.

Compare that to last year when by this time we had received 71.7" of snow; I wrote about the 40+ inches of snow that fell between December 5 and December 9. Even an average year boasts about 27" by this time. And while it will feel very weird to not have snow on the ground on December 25 - weather experts at Cornell University give only a 68% chance of a white Christmas - most people are not complaining. We know, after all, that there will be snow sometime soon.

So while we are snow behind, that is okay with us.