Snow pictures!

It snowed last weekend. Boy howdy, did it snow.  First we got the perfect packing snow on Friday.  The boys had a blast playing...making snowmen

and snow forts and snowballs.

And it looked pretty in the trees...

Then overnight we got more snow. It covered up the tracks the boys made building the snowmen

and this snow was colder and didn't pack well, so the wind blew it into drifts.

My daughter tried to measure it in the back yard, but found it was 10 inches deep in the shortest area and 20 inches deep in the tallest area. Doggone wind. She put pics on her Facebook, if you're interested. 

 I never did hear the "official" snowfall amount.

These pictures were taken in the morning.

Then in the afternoon, unexpectedly, the sky cleared to a brilliant blue and the sun shone bright.  It was beautiful.

Same closeup of the same tree...only the sun has melted the snow and changed it to ice in the top layer.

The sunshine was wonderful, but didn't stay long. It has snowed every day since Friday. Snow is in the immediate forecast. No warm up in sight for us.  I just hope it doesn't all melt in the same day. What a mess that would be!

Oh yeah--we got snow.

So I'm laying in bed last night and thought I'd watch a little TV while I waited for the heating pad to warm up my feet enough so I could sleep.  I turn the TV on and within seconds......pfth...the electric goes off....followed by a blue flash of light outside and a ...bzzzzzz.   Oh yeah--the transformer blew.  The good news is that the heating pad had warmed up, so we were okay for a little while.

That was 9:30.

About 3:30 this morning dh woke up--because that's the time the alarm usually goes off.  He'd went to bed about an hour before I had, so he was surprised to hear that the electric was off.  Then he couldn't sleep--because he doesn't usually sleep at this early morning time.  So guess who he wanted to talk to?  Good news is...I'd gotten nearly 6 hours of sleep and was up to the task.  So while he's contemplating whether or not our orange extension cord would be heavy enough to run the furnace if he fired up the generator....TADA...the electric comes back on.  I know because I had left my bedside lamp on .  Ooops.

So we all went back to sleep (the kids woke up because they'd left their lights on, too) and when it was daylight the guys happily trekked outside and shoveled....and shoveled....and shoveled all that wonderful snow for about an hour.  Meanwhile, dd and I lounged around and had a leasurely morning.  :-)  Life is good.

Pictures will come later.

I'm beginning to see a pattern here.

It snowed last night. And again today. Are you surprised? Don't be.

Just so you'll know...the big talk around town is that the weather forecasters are saying that a huge storm could hit us Monday. It didn't take me long to make the rounds around a town this small--but trust me...that's what everyone is talking about. Not that the 3+ inches of snow we got last night ON TOP of the 6 or 8 we already have wasn't big news, either. They predicted 1 inch by tonight. They were off just a *little* bit.

So anyway, I thought I'd show you a couple more pics of the snow. There are some that my daughter took yesterday. She's really good at photography, too. I like her closeups:







The sun came out and she caught it glimmering through the iced-over tree limbs. Gorw-geous!

Day 1...finding something to say

Hi guys. Thanks for visiting my blog. I started it on a whim....and you know what? Now that I'm looking at this blank page, my mind is following it's lead. Blank.

I fixed meatloaf with all the trimmings tonight. Actually, I prepared the meatloaf yesterday when I had 4 pounds of ground beef that needed used or frozen. Today I fixed the mashed taters (and a baked tater b/c I don't eat mashed ones), green beans, corn, and fluffy warm homemade biscuits.

Are you getting hungry yet?

Well, here's something to get your mind off food. Snow.

My 16-year-old son took these pictures yesterday. We had snow, then during the night it rained and all the trees and ground had a thick layer of ice when we woke up. Then it snowed. And snowed. All together there is 5 or 6 inches of precipitation on the ground.

So, with all that heavy "global warming" on the tree limbs, they're getting mighty heavy. Here you see our Blue Spruce. It's not very blue, is it? Actually...now that I take a closer look at these picture...they're all in shades of grey. Such is winter.



And here's a small glimpse at our little town. As some of you may recall, I affectionately refer to it as "Mudville." When all this "global warming" melts, it will be apparent why I call it Mudville. Here in Eastern Ohio, there really isn't much flat ground. Most of it is hills. Lots of up-and-down hills. I plan on getting some pics to show you later. I know, I know...you can't wait. {snicker} Anyway, any time it rains all that water follows gravity and runs downhill. This could create problems...and often does. Such is life in our part of the world.

So there you go...my first day's ramblings. Aren't you glad you came by to visit?