Mornin' everyone!

As of 8:30 this morning, it is still snowing and blowing in coastal NH. Because of all the drifting, it's hard to tell how much snow has fallen so far, but something slightly over a foot seems a reasonable guess. It'll be good to get out there to assess and start the clean-up, but it doesn't make any sense to do that till the wind dies down, otherwise the cleared areas will just fill in again. Since the storm is predicted to stick around all day, it'll be a while till we get outside. Fortunately, we haven't lost power, but that remains a possibility as long as the winds keep up. It looks like today will be a good day to start to clean up the basement...

Stay safe if you're in eastern New England. Have fun otherwise!

Jay

Hang in there.  I know you New Englanders are a hardy bunch.

Just a dusting down here but it was sitting on a nice layer of ice, which made the footing tricky.

Out for 7.

Mornin' y'all.....so the storm was sort of a Dustzilla for NYC, so it seems.  Politicians all crazy.

One of my NE friends reminded folks to be sure to grind enough coffee in case the power goes out.  This means she must have a gas stove, no?

(And yes, she's a coffee connoisseur, hence the daily grind).

So I almost tried twocat's mashed potato recipe last night, as I was making salmon patties and mps, but I only had prepared horserasdish (raise your hand if you happen to have a hunk of fresh hanging about your home).  I might have used it, just to get the general idea, but DH isn't as big a fan of hr as I am.  Next time, after I get to the market.

I'm reading Kitchen Daughter, about a young woman with Asperger's who loves to cook and can bring back people she's known by cooking recipes she has that are in their own handwriting.

Still giddy just to run.  Only 5 this am, but not on ice or snow.  We had pretty strong winds yesterday and it's only 54 at 10 am still.  Sympathy pains for the snowbound?

Oh, I checked out Mustang Sally's schedule for today  (wonder if we'll hear from her??):

Stage 4: Tue, 27 Jan: Nine Hammers*
Duration: 1hr
<The United Nations Has Removed Descriptive Content as it Violates Ethical Human Treatment Standards.> But you still have to do the stage.

Anyone been to see "Whiplash" yet?  It's funny; since the nominations have come out, I've seen J.K. Simmons in several movies we watched on netflix/got from the library.

yes, MikeE, I must agree with my chum Kevin, that was pretty good.  Now we can stop with the jokes and talking about it .

grins,

A

Good Morning!

Good luck to all of you up in the path of snowmagedden...

{{{{Mike}}}} - although January in Minnesota seems like a great time and place to take a short running break.

Count me as another one who didn't know what celery root was....

Slo - did you push your belly out to make it look fatter?

5.35 easy-paced miles for me on the TM today at 10:10, followed by 5-7 minutes of gentle stretching.

Happy Tuesday!

What is celery root asks StarrRuns and Holly S.?  You all have been missing out!

Yes it look hideous!  But cut off all that ugly outside stuff and inside is a very versatile root vegetable. It not only makes for a great addition to mashed potatoes but also turns into a super slaw.  Here is my personal favorite variant.  It is easy and best of all tastes way better than some of the complex ones I have tried:  http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/guy-fieri/crab-burgers-with-celery-root-remoulade-slaw-recipe.html.

AamosY I made my batch according to the directions with the raw horseradish root.  But I found that it did not have enough of that oomph you want from the horseradish.  I guess boiling it down takes quite a bit of the bite out of it.  So, I added prepared horseradish to the finished dish.  My guess is that you can make the potatoes sans horseradish, then add the prepared stuff before serving and let everyone adjust the amount to taste.

Here in CT we have about a foot of snow I would guess.  We have power so all is good!  I thought about going out in my YakTraxs.  But a foot seems like too much to give that a shot.  Freezing feet in wet sneakers are not part of what I view as a great run.  Instead I think I will head down to the basement for a TM lobotomy run later on today.

Speaking of the unspeakable, meaning a TM, stumpy77  Ditch the gym TM.  EBay!  When gyms get rid of their old equipment or just go bankrupt their TMs end up with trucking companies.  The trucking companies then cobble together rebuilt TMs from the old ones and sell them on EBay.  You get a gym quality TM that new would run 7 grand plus for under a thousand!  Best of all, since it is just your family using it the thing will last pretty much forever.

We closed the office today, so I slept late and then in an attempt to stave off the cabin-fever munchies, I did a long full-body resistance workout, followed by 7.5 miles on the treadmill.  Thank goodness for the basement gym!

We have about 24 inches out there now.  There is still some significant snowfall coming down, but we're going to try to make a first pass on the snow removal.  Mmmm, hot chockky!  And I love celery root.

--Robin

Jay talks about "eastern New England" as if there were a western New England. How's that possible? Vermont too far west for ya? Glad to hear that all of you in the northeast still have power and are otherwise doing OK. The network news people were hyperventilating yesterday as if they'd never seen snow before, showing one shot of a "snow covered side street" that looked like my street looks pretty much all winter, that is, 90% cleared. They also were helpful in informing us that "In a Nor'easter the winds come from the northeast and that's why it's called a Nor'easter." Duh.

Anyway, like many others of you, I depended on a TM today for a workout and did some of the weight machines at the gym even though there's zero fresh snow outside. I actually wish we'd gotten a bit of your snow.

The photos that I've seen Robin posting on FB are pretty spectacular in terms of amount of snow.  They do all seem to be taken from the inside warmth of her home while her husband is outside plowing though . .  .hmmmm... 

i haven't seen much news coverage yet since i've been working but has there been huge power outages, or not as bad as predicted?

5 mile RAL. a bit of a chill in the air, but still good enough for shorts today. didn't take long to warm up.