Favorite person in the world and his guitar.

Major crush.

Well friends, we’re sitting here watching the beginning of this massive snowstorm that last about 48 hours. Latest predictions for our area: 6 to 12 inches. The tricky part of all of this is a changeover to sleet during the middle of the storm and then back to snow on Monday. We’re having some sleet as I write this.

Don got out the snow blower and started it up yesterday. It’s now on our porch (where we can plug it in if we need to charge it) covered by a tarp. I finished moving various plant pots, including our vintage French and English pots to the porch. All of the furniture from the Secret Garden and the Funky Patio is now on the porch. I also gathered up some low profile garden fencing and it’s on the porch. I covered the former kitchen island with its winter tarp. Of course, the porch gets snow, especially if it’s blowing in from southwest to northeast, but everything is more protected than if I left it in place.

This morning we moved our cars to allow more space for snow blowing, Don went downstairs via the outside entrance and checked the level of heating oil.

And that’s all we can do.

Now, we wait it out and decide whether to shovel halfway through the storm.

It’s a monster of a storm and not the gentle welcome to winter I had been imagining!

It may be a good day to work on the dollhouse. We’ll see.

For those of you in the path of this storm, stay safe.

Happy Sunday.

Still life from yesterday. There is often a guitar on this sofa. That circular thing in the sound hole is actually a humidifier. At this time of year, with the heat on, guitars can dry out and that’s not a good thing.

Nothing all that exciting to report. We hauled porch furniture to the storage facility yesterday. I took the opportunity to look in my old trunk (retrieved last year from my friend’s basement back in Detroit) and I pulled out a lot of old pictures, etc., which I’m going to go through this weekend. Lots  and lots of pics of young Claudia’s theatrical exploits. Should be interesting.

The big news here is the soon-to-be-with-us major snowstorm that is arriving on Sunday and will be active through Monday. Predictions vary wildly, but I believe I can say with relative certainty that this will be a biggie. At the very least, 8 inches, more likely a whole lot more.

We’re dreading it, of course.

Why can’t our first snowfall be picturesque and gentle? Perhaps a few inches and nothing more?

Nope. We’re getting walloped.

Weather (dot) com has the most alarming prediction. Weather (dot) gov is a bit more cautious. But our favorite is a local site, hudsonvalleyweather (dot) com, which goes into great detail and is also quite cautious about jumping to conclusions until all the data is in. These guys are great. So far, they’re holding off on Monday predictions. Monday, I gather, is the wildcard.

In the meantime, we need to do some grocery shopping and charge the snow blower.

This doesn’t bode well for the rest of the winter although my fantasy is that December is very snowy and then the rest of the winter is mild.

I can have my fantasy, right?

Happy Saturday.