A Good Day for Baking Cookies

Winter has hit us very hard all throughout February, and now into March.  We have had a lot of snow and very cold, frigid temperatures lately.  I am looking out at a blanket of  snow, right now as I write.  This morning, when I went into work, the roads were a slushy, slippery mess and my car thermometer read 3* F.  BRRRRRR!  That was at 9:30 AM.  When I was coming home from work, the roads were a bit better, but the mercury had only risen 2*, making it 5* instead of 3*.  It was still frigid.  Then it started to snow yet again.  Now that I am home, I have no intentions of going out again today, unless it is absolutely necessary.  So being homebound, with no intentions of leaving again today, I thought it was a very good day to bake cookies.  By turning the oven on, it…