Too much snow!

AA-Florida or Bust Bumper Sticker (Zazzle.com)

Well, if you are a regular reader of this blog, you'll know that I was greatly anticipating the first snowstorm and was just as greatly dissapointed when we got a mere three or so inches. That said; there can be too much of a good thing.

For example, take the two recent snowstorms that we had...each dropping off about a foot of snow. This combined with nowhere to shovel the new snow I beleive that we're all fed up with this thing we call magnificent winter!

Then, we can just add the three to five inches expected during the next few days and get:

•  a bunch of people fed up with winter
• a lot more snowbirds heading down to florida

I'm guessing that the only people that are really enjoying all this weather are the forcasters...because for the fourth time this winter(at least): they were right.

[If you are a weather forcaster reading this; please don't be offended, but I've had too many falls reports coming from you colleagues that I'm not sure how much I take seriously your reports!]

Image courtesy of Zazzle.com:  AA- Florida or Bust Snowbird Bumper Sticker

Snowed in Suspense!

All right, all right, I shall now reveal how much snow we got, but...please don't read the rest of this post, unless you've read this one.

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 It was snowing all day (on Wednesday) and by dinnertime, I'd say we had about 1' 5" of snow...as my friend said about the storm; "be careful what you wish for!" SO, I'm sorry that the photos are all grey and monotoned...but that's what snow looks like!

[...and it's still coming down hard!]

[Where did the porch steps go?]

After attempting to shovel the driveway in two layers (my back still hurts), I went across the street to see my friend she and I tried to play in the snow...but it was very hard given the fact that we couldn't walk a step without being sucked into and buried in a snow drift!

[I hope that wasn't a squirrel's nest!]

[Our garage was buried alive...I sill can't open the door to get my sleds out!]

My friend and I soon realized that there was just a tad too much snow for sledding, so we  decided to make a village of snow homes, under a pine grove, next to her house.

(About the sledding: Yes, we tried, but it's terribly hard to get out of a sled when the snow is higher than you while you are kneeling down.) 

[A tree as seen through the icicles]

While we're on the subject of icicles: the day after the storm was beautiful with the brightest sky of blue imaginable! The sun was shining on our many icicles and let me tell you; besides the cold, it was quite the photo op.!

[My best icicle picture ever taken...I haven't taken all that many!]

[My second best!]

[The snow, no longer on the pine tree (pictured waaaayyy above!)]

[One of my favorite views to take a picture from, it's surprising how many pictures I have from this point of view!]

To take advantage of my New Years resolution: One of the things I have been grateful for this week was the large amount of snow and snow play... I'm also thankful for having had the chance to build a wonderful igloo. But, that's a different story!

For real!?!

Hey, guess what? You know how weather.com and all those weather sites tell you that there's a blizzard coming, then they postpone it until 7PM, then10, then (oh what the heck) to one the next morning? Then everyone gets all excited and there's a billion cars in the parking lot of your super-market, 'cause everyone wants to stock up on flour, milk, eggs, and hot coco? Then, you wake up the next morning and there are five inches of snow on the ground and there are only a few schools closed because the storm actually hit the town five over and one up to the right?

Yeah, you know what I'm talking about.

So, the same thing happened on Tuesday , everyone got excited, the weather people kept saying, "Oh wait, actually the storms coming in three more hours......no, actually six......well, more like 12...but it's coming!" Let me tell you, after the last 'storm': grocery store parking lots weren't exactly full.

We weren't going to be fooled this time, this time we knew that it was a hoax.

However, Wednesday morning......
[stay tuned ladies and jellybeans to find out exactly how much snow we got!]