Melanie's PoV Despite the lack of things to do, the day seemed to pass by quite quickly. Morgan had been out clearing a path as best he could to the outbuildings to retrieve a few items, and had then spent a large amount of time in the basement, fiddling with goodness knows what. I had kept Dingus company up here,for a little while watching the snow pile ever higher before I disappeared into the kitchen wanting to make myself useful. If I was going to be holed up here with him the least I could do was to prepare a meal for him and tidy up a little bit…maybe handle wha little laundry we had. I threw together a stew with the cut of meat that was sitting in the fridge, bulking it out with some white potatoes, a handful of lentils and a handful of pearl barley that I found in his la