WW #91 "Snow In The Trees"

I complain a lot about Winter and the snow. I think, I was just about 10 min. ago, when I was trying to clear the snowbank at the end of my driveway. But the other day, during a snowstorm, my husband dragged me outside. He wanted me to take a look around, and try to appreciate the beauty of it.

I have to admit, it does look pretty in the trees, after it first snows.

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Quotable Sunday ~ Snow

We are getting more snow today. It's been snowing since last night and is "supposed" to end around noon time. We might get another 8 or more inches out of this. Not as much as some places like my mother-in-law who may have gotten 15 inches already!

Here's some quotes about the thing called "snow."

1. A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. ~Carl Reiner

2. When snow falls, nature listens. ~Antoinette van Kleef

3. When I no Longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old. ~ Lady Bird Johnson

4. The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. ~
Doug Larson

WW 46 "Are You Sure Spring is Coming?"

I took these last Thurday. I went to pick my daughter up from her Brownie meeting. This is outside of her school. I couldn't believe the size of this snow bank!

Another Snow Day

Another snow day today. No school for the kids. Not to complain or anything, but snow days stink! All the kids do is fight over the TV, Computer and whatever else. And then it's too cold and snowing to go anywhere or do anything so your stuck in the house all day. They would be better off having school. At least I think so.

This is I think their 4th snow day so far. I can't take much more! And my daughter's dance class was canceled again because the last storm was on a Wednesday too. And they make you still pay even though the class is canceled.

OK. Sorry for sounding so negative. But I've got a headache, and the kids have been driving me crazy all day! Please no more snow days!

Snow With More on the Way

It snowed for about 24 hours here. It started around 2:00 yesterday and ended around the same time today. We got about 10 inches out of it.

Took the kids sledding today. It was still snowing at the time. And it was very cold! Needless to say I didn't take any pictures.

It is supposed to snow again tomorrow. We could get another 7 to 10 inches out of that! We might go sledding tomorrow too. I'll try get some pictures then.

Let it snow, let it snow, let is snow!

Already Sick of Winter

I'm already sick of winter, and it hasn't even officially started yet! We are expecting another snow storm later today. And could get up to a foot of snow! My kids schools already called yesterday and said all schools will be dismissed 2 hours early in anticipation of the snow storm.

After what has happened this past week, I guess I am just grateful that we are home. If it snows at least we will be at home! If we lose power again though I am going to scream!

And for now we actually have a generator. What happened was Wednesday I was really at my breaking point with this whole power outage. I had heard from a few people that it could be up to 2 weeks before we would get our power back! I could not go two weeks without power. And not stay in a hotel for that long. So my husband was able to get a generator through his nephew. It was somewhat of a drive to retrieve this generator and he was gone for over 3 hours picking it up.

He got back to the hotel around 7:30 PM. An hour and a half later my neighbor called and said the power was back on! Of course we were super happy about this. But my husband was also kicking himself for going to get this generator all for naught. He was actually almost going to wait until the next day to get it. Oh well hindsight is 20/20.

We had no way of knowing when we were going to get the power on. My neighbor even had told me that she had gone out to talk to the electric people while they were fixing whatever it took to get the power on. And they told her that we were actually lucky to get this power on now. Because we were not really scheduled for it yet and it could have been longer. Not sure exactly what that means, and hard to feel lucky after going 6 days without it. But I guess I should feel lucky considering there is still over 30,000 people without electricity still.

And I'm also glad we didn't actually have to use this generator. Although I was going to. But you really have to be careful with them, and 2 people in my state have already died using them during this ice storm! I'm just glad it's over!

But like I said here comes maybe 12 inches of snow today! Ugh! Wake me up in the spring!

First Snow

Yesterday we had our first taste of snow. We actually drove down to my mother-in-laws yesterday and she got more snow then we did. She lives in Massachusetts, about an hour and half from me. There must have been about 3 inches on the ground when it was over. By the time we got back to our house we only had a slight dusting.

Here's some pictures. My mother-in-law lives right on a pond. It's practically as big as a lake. People even water ski on it in the summer!