Conquering the Snow....Fall

It's been a good day here in my neighborhood. We woke up to a gorgeous world completely coated with 12" - 15" of the white stuff. I just love snow so was quite happy when I looked out our bedroom window this morning (having a day off from school didn't hurt, either). My hubs, on the other hand, has been doing nothing but grumble the entire day. He claims to passionately hate "that God-awful white crap". Actually, his language was a bit more colorful but I'll just let you use your imagination.

My daughter Brynn had to go to work this afternoon, and though our road was plowed, our driveway? Not so much. However, as you can see, Brynn was bound and determined to conquer those 12" - 15"!

That first little camera jiggle in the above video? My first slip in the snow. That second ginormous camera jiggle? Yup, that was an arse over apple-cart fall by moi that sent my camera flying into a snow bank! (Mom, you were so very smart to give me a water-proof camera for my birthday!)

Brynnlee was ultimately snow victorious, but, of course, I accidentally turned the camera off so there's no "victory dance at the end of the driveway" to be seen.

Oh, and Brynnly informed me on her way out our road that my A-over-A fall was punishment for cleaning the snow off of her car roof...and onto her. Yup, she was standing on the other side of her car when I pushed the snow off. Can't say my apology was very sincere. (It really never is if delivered while the apologizer is also laughing hysterically.)

Stay safe and warm if you're in this year's snow belt!

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xoabb

snowfall...such a beautiful thing!

Winter Sky

(Friday morning update) I certainly got my wish! Started snowing just after midnight and I'm told the snow is going to continue all through tomorrow. No school day for me!

Today @ 10:45am

Today @ 10:00am

Right now it's raining buckets in Connecticut. I'm hoping for a school snow closure day Friday, but since it's Thursday night as I'm writing this, and it's just raining like crazy with no snow in the foreseeable future, I have no idea if I'll get my wish or not. I'll either have the phone blaring at me around 5am announcing a snow day, or the alarm will blare and I'll have to drag my sorry a** out of bed so I can be at school by 7:45 am. Ugh!

Amazing...at this hour (11:15 pm) there's already a foot of snow in NYC and that's just 40 miles away from me! (We still have no snow.)

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xoabb

expect snow???

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It's Thursday - It Really Is...

This week I'm on Winter break so I have lots of time to get into trouble! I intentionally did NOT go visit my sis or parents or anyone/place else as I wanted to get loads of cr*p either purged out of our home or just taken care of. Must say I've been fairly successful in this endeavor - but MAN, it depresses astounds me how much there is yet to be done! How the hell did we collect all this stuff???

On other fronts, I saw the most bizarre thing today. As anyone who is obsessed with the weather like me knows, New England has been blanketed with snow for most of our winter. It's been mild enough lately, relatively speaking, that under our home eaves there's no snow. As I was coming down the driveway, there had to be at least 30 robins on the snowless ground. I quickly drove in the garage and went upstairs to get my camera which wasn't in my purse, dammit, as I'd forgotten it, dammit! I snuck out the front door, barely put just my camera around the corner, snapped off a pic...and got...nuthin'. Little buggers had flown, one and all, to the area around our mail box. I was not happy. I won't be sharing that particular photo.

On another note, I'm quite pleased with our Olympic ladies! Lindsey Vonn and Julia Mancuso - you two ROCK! Thanks for making us Americans so very proud! Oh, and that snow boarder, too - he was good!

On the next note, wasn't the dog show wonderful?? That Scotty dog was just the best - but I LOVED that doberman - oh what do I know???

Last note on a very sorta nice day - played bridge tonight. Let's just leave it that I was not, repeat, was not in the winner's circle. POOH!

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xoabb

expect anything!

Photo: 8:30am, 2/16/10