Underwhelmed

Well....the snow total wasn't anywhere near the predicted 8-20 inches promised for Blizzard 2011. (Iwill note the town 90 miles to the west has gotten 18+ inches during this storm.) However, it has been raining, freezing rain or snowing for almost the last 48 hours. This table sits on our patio and shows pretty accurately the snowfall total. What you can't see is the ice layer underneath - although the icicles hanging off the side are pretty impressive. So, as far as blizzards go, I've seen better. But holing up inside our house for a few days has been a nice change of pace around here.

I'm getting pretty stir crazy. We've not been out of the house except to shovel since Monday afternoon. It might be a new record. I've enjoyed catching up with some leisurely reading and sewing as well as spending some time with the family - John has been home the last two days as well. I've even gone back and filled in some Very Old entries from last year. I have one more I'm working on tonight and then I'll post some links to help you find them.

Amelia Potter

We got some H@rry P0tter stickers yesterday at the library. They have been great at entertaining me for a pretty big chunk of time today. Close to 7 hours later, she is still sporting her lightening bolt.

Waiting is so hard....

ICE!

Here is the deck view this morning. I especially like the big drips hanging from the chairs. You can see all the snow from previous pictures is now gone - replaced with a pretty thick layer of ice. Also? It is still raining. Because everyone is home today and potentially for the next couple of days, we made fresh caramel rolls for breakfast. From scratch. (I'd like to point out that breakfast was inspired by Jenn's Facebook posting yesterday)

It begins

We've had freezing rain all day. The streets are a slushy mess and will probably be an ice rink tomorrow morning. The snow is supposed to begin overnight -we'll see what morning brings.

We made a quick trip to the store for some soup ingredients ( seems like that is a rule. When it is snowy, there should be a pot of soup on the stove). We also hit up the library for some new reading material. This was our driveway and mailbox this morning. Of course, the ice/slush is all thicker now.

Snow day prep

With temperatures in the 40's we had to take the opportunity to get outside before the next round of bad weather comes through tomorrow (predictions call for freezing rain, ice followed by 6-10 inches of snow). I figured we needed to get some more cold weather playing practice while we can!

Pictured are the slowly shrinking snow cave (previously built snow tunnel and snow house have all disappeared) and William's special snowman friend!! The snowman was quite the job as it took about all the remaining snow in the front yard to build.

Sunday afternoon instruction

This week's topic: bones are important