After all that snow and all that drifting we had - so much that I couldn't find the septic vent without much tramping around in the snow and searching - we had several days of warm weather and sunshine, and most of the snow melted away.  By this weekend our yard was mostly just grass, with a few small piles of snow left.  Then Sunday came, and we ( Read more... )

Earlier this winter I was noting how the snow in our back yard was so smooth, while the neighbors' back yard snow was all churned up.  The difference?  They have two dogs.  It doesn't take long for them to mess up all that pristine snow by running around the yard.

This time we've got some messed up snow in our back yard, too.

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Weather.  It's what we talk about when we can't think of anything else to talk about.  Lately, it seems that no one can think of anything else to talk about.  Facebook, Twitter, the TV news - it's all about the weather.  A blizzard across the entire middle section of the country, temperatures in Texas colder than temperatures in Alaska.  It really ( Read more... )

I'm just waiting for it to stop snowing today so I can go out and shovel the driveway.  Since I don't have to go anywhere and Jeffrey won't be coming home until later, there's no real hurry - and I figure there's no sense in shoveling while it's still snowing.  I'd just have to do it all over again!  We did clean it off this morning, and it was ( Read more... )

When it's cold, you can't cover your mouth and nose - because your glasses will get all steamed up, and you won't be able to see anything.

Sometimes I'd really like to be able to cover my nose.  Sometimes because it's cold and sometimes because I don't want to smell the exhaust from other people's snow blowers.  Like this afternoon when I was ( Read more... )

Somebody decided it's winter.  Wasn't me -  I promise!

We had a few inches of snow yesterday, but nothing major.  It sounds like more is coming tonight.  They're saying 4-7 inches, so I guess we'll see.  It makes me happy that we're home inside all safe and warm with nowhere to go.  I really don't mind snow when I can look out the windows and enjoy ( Read more... )

The idea is that I'm supposed to post here so I can remember what's going on in my life - and other random things.  Except that I don't post, and then when I try to remember things, I have no record.  Probably because it just seems mundane and boring to record when I took the flannel sheets off the bed and started using regular sheets again (last ( Read more... )

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