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.
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Thanks for taking the time to share this with me, Janice!
Take care Claudia and Don and anyone else who will be at the mercy of the snow storms. I’m thinking of you. Temperatures here are just below freezing, pavements are icy but the skies are clear. We do experience snow in the North but very rarely anything like as deep as yourselves unless it is a snow drift. To be honest, I had to google snow blower as I’ve never seen one.
Happy Sunday
Most people who live in areas where it snows have snow blowers, Dee Dee. We went a long time without one, but now that we’re older, I’m glad we invested in one. Although, it’s very heavy and unwieldy – I can’t even handle it. It has to be Don. Thanks!
Same here in southern Ontario, Canada; right now it’s freezing rain and howling winds.
Oh, I hate the winds! Stay safe, Sue.
We have had two days of rain, still ongoing. I love a good snowstorm, but not when ice is involved. When that does happen, the electric goes out and we hunker down while letting our generator do the work or us. At least you have a husband with guitar skills. That would be so nice.
But we don’t have a generator, Diane! Thanks!
Seventeen inches and counting! I try to go out every couple of hours to shovel some. I’m not sure how many more times I can do this before I throw the shovel into the woods and scream, ” I give up!”
I’m lucky that I do have someone to plow my driveway (450 feet) and yard for me. I only have to do a walkway. Now to worry about shoveling the roof. No joke.
Be safe Claudia and Don. This stuff is no joke.
Oh, we have a snow rake for that very purpose, Trudy. A few years back when Don was in Boston during the winter, we had such heavy snow that I had to rake part of it off the roof. We don’t have someone to plow and, since our driveway is uphill, any plow ends up spewing all of our gravel off the driveway. So, we stick with shovels and the snow blower. Stay safe, Trudy!
I remember when you were having to go out and rake the snow off the roof. What a struggle that time was. I wish you weren’t going through such a terrible storm, especially one with sleet.
Even more snow to come today, Linda.
Hi Claudia, The blessing in this storm is that you are prepared and get to spend the time with your most favorite person in the world!
Stay safe and enjoy the quiet.
We will, Kelly. Thank you!
Yes, please work on the dolls house.
We ended up buying a Christmas tree so no dollhouse work today! Thanks, Elaine!
I’m out of the loop and know little about this storm you’re getting, so will get informed. We’ve had quite a bit of rain in SoCalif but of course it’s nothing compared to what’s slamming you. We did get 12 hrs of continuous rain yesterday but it was light. Brrrr; you two lovebirds stay warm. Your preparations are impressive. I remember when once you were low on the heating oil and that was a bit of a nerve juggler.
I have a funny story for you. I get certain obsessions with the holidays and I begin to crave my favorite wafer cookies which have some chocolate and a crushed-peppermint topping. Can’t find them anywhere. Sometimes they do come to the store well into December. My husband, my own favorite person, went looking/shopping for me; came up empty handed but for this: He got other ‘generic’ chocolate wafer cookies, spread them out in the driveway on a clean towel during a slight rain ‘lull’, and blowtorched them with his big blowtorch he usually has for tinkering on cars and ‘stuff’. Came out 10 times better than the store-bought cookie. Delish. Precisely why he’s my crush, too! It’s so much more than about crushed peppermint!
Good for your husband! He’s a keeper, Vicki!
I misstated. He didn’t put the cookies on a towel; he had them on a metal pan. The blow torch would have burned up the towel! I don’t recommend any of this by the way (he knows what he’s doing; other people might not); but it was kinda fun, as a OTO spontaneous (and tasty) experience. I’m sure for people who cook, they use a much-smaller kitchen ‘instrument’ to get that nice topping on creme brulee and the like (I think it’s called a butane torch used in cooking).
Yes, I’ll keep him.
Wow, I did educate myself with the East Coast weather maps. You are indeed slated for not just snow, but HEAVY snow. What is the term ‘wintry mix’; what does that mean, like a precursor to heavy snow? As you know, I’m on the opposite coast and we never have a wintry mix where I am, so I’m clueless. Does it mean you have the whole bag, with ice and rain and sleet and snow, one following the other? Help me with my ignorance! How on earth can Don travel in that kind of weather for an audition; oh, how I wish he could postpone…maybe they’ll cancel the auditions for a later date since it sounds like most eastern-seaboard cities would be shut down with warnings for people to stay off the highways? Wish-oh-wish?
When the temperature changes precipitation like rain, turns to sleet. When it gets colder, it snows. When the temp goes from warm to cold and back again, you get sleet, snow, sleet. Sleet is basically ice. It’s quite dangerous.
Don isn’t going to make his audition. Even if he tried, I would have stopped him. It’s too dangerous out there and we have even more snow coming today.
Well, that’s a good explanation of the weather. Thanks.
I know it’s a pain in the tush to actually be living in it, but when I ‘see’ the snow in your photo and hear about the new holiday tree (in the Monday post), I feel a bit envious because it’s the Christmas weather I’ve read about in storybooks and seen illustrated or photo’d on greeting cards, and I’ve never known it. To my untrained experience, the snow in your yard looks beautiful; such a ‘quiet’ world, blanketed in white. Hushed. Toned down; serene. As I’ve told you before, one of my fave all-time photos anywhere from anybody is one you took of your snowy yard with the red shed in the background…and a deer family. I copied and kept it, which I hope is okay with you. (Just part of my computer office-file program [not internet], a small scrapbook for nobody but me.) It could be a Christmas card.
xo
It is a massive storm…but at least if you are just waiting, you have good company…the best! Stay safe! ;)
Thank you, Donna!
Good luck!
It’s very, very slippery out there and quite dangerous. Thanks, Jeanie.
I will hope they got it wrong and you will just receive a few inches. It is snowing here this aft, but not accumulating very quickly which we are thankful for, of course. Such a big travel day and so many places where travel is dangerous today.
Hope you are having a good day. Lots of reading time for me!!
Well, since this is going on all the way through the day and night tomorrow, I think we’ll get quite a bit of snow, Chris! Thank you!
It is raining hard right now. It is going to change to snow overnight here.
Marilyn
Sleeting here. It’s been sleet, snow, and then more sleet. Dangerous and messy. Stay safe, Marilyn.
Just got back from a 3+ mile walk, wherein rain began about 2 miles in. We got back home just as the winds picked up and the skies got even darker. Rain all week. But, better than snow all week. Stay warm, dry and safe during these upcoming snow storms.
It’s a mess out there, Wendy!
Good morning! Here in Farmington Valley we had a long time of heavy sleet last night so it packed down the snow but we didn’t really get very much. Our driveway was plowed when I got up at around 6:30. I guess part 2 is due later today. I’m hoping you and Don will have a window to get some clean up before the second part hits you. Probably you will get more than we did this time. Yesterday early afternoon was rather lovely tho. I put on some holiday music and curled up on the window seat and my old cat and I watched the flakes fall. It’s our 16th winter together. I’m treasuring every season and song. You know. Stay warm and safe today!
I wish our driveway wasn’t uphill and so hard to plow. We’ll have to deal with it. We have 4 -7 inches more coming today, Nora.