The last snowstorm that we thought would be the last for the season shut the whole city down. Well, this was it! By afternoon it all disappeared!


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I don't think I wrote about the adventure MIL had on her flight back on Friday! I want to write this down to remember for the future.... not that any of us here will actually ever forget!

A brief backstory: MIL went to Tucson for two weeks to attend the International Gem & Jewelry show. She has a lot of interest and practices use of healing crystals ( Read more... )

If I hear one more Northerner snickering at the locals here for their "wimpiness" towards the "little bit of snow" we got, it will make me mad. It's not a little bit of snow. We have 2ft of snow on the ground another 16 inches expected with this second round of blizzard conditions. People don't have shovels at home nor do they have cars equipped ( Read more... )

oh my goodness... we woke up...well, husband is still sleeping in. Who wouldn't on this cold snowy morning. Me however had to get up as my stomach was growling and needed a bathroom run and a few glasses of water. Dude, the kid has already become the boss ( Read more... )

We are still blanketed with a lot of snow everywhere. Mostly because it's the added on snow ploughed from the roads and the pavements. So, as I walk onto the pavement there are two walls sandwiching me! Although - hang on, I haven't been walking about on the pavements. I have been on house arrest in fear of ice on pavements. Every morning MIL  ( Read more... )

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It's started to snow! The flakes look more like dust particles at the moment! Started earlier than forecasted! But if it snows as forecasted we will get a foot of snow by tomorrow night and that will be my first "big" snow! The last time I saw snow was 8 inches in Tulsa, Oklahoma (where the userpic was taken ( Read more... )

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In middle school & high school I was in the choir (on and off). Yes, I was. Our choir specialised singing out of key. We drove our music coordinator mad. We usually performed carols at the winter performance show held in December. We often sang songs of snow, cold, and having a white Christmas. But they were just songs. The last few weeks the malls ( Read more... )