Well ..... With all that white fluff and COLD! out there, who could possibly manage to find any dust to bite?

To claim the fame for COLD! I must inform you all that Thermometer Outside My Kitchen Window tells me our temp is minus 6F/minus 21C. And my peek out the door shows that the snow cover is evenly white and fluffy, although not yet overly ( Read more... )

Winter returned. Then, Autumn poked its head back through the door, waggling fingers and whipping branches around. Spring keeps trying to shoulder her way back in; but Winter and Autumn are insisting on behaving like mean, jealous elder siblings (a comparison that means a lot to a #8 out of 10 siblings). This household is definitely pulling for ( Read more... )

Do you remember the last batch of snow photos I posted? One had the step railing with the squirrel's ski jump on the end ... Wheeeee!

I took those photos on March 10th. Exactly a month later on APRIL 10th--yesterday at about 6:15 p.m.--I took these:


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Are you tired of hearing/reading about winter weather? About frigidly cold temperatures ... About snow piling higher and shoveling snow and back aches because of shoveling snow of trudging through knee high snow banks--uphill, both ways, barefoot ( Read more... )

Last night, I decided that this morning I'd do a "This is what ELSE you sometimes get with that pretty, white sparkly stuff" post. This morning, I find that my friend thespian15 already did a fine job of listing out some details. (If, by any chance, you don't know thespian15, I recommend friending him. He's fun.) But I do want to expand on one of his statements ( Read more... )

Yoshi's Dad picked him up yesterday afternoon. That was one tired man since he'd been trying to get a flight back home for a couple of days with little sleep available to him, as our blizzard had flights halted from all over and he was coming back from somewhere in Mexico. On the other hand . . . that was one ecstatic little dog to have his Dad ( Read more... )