Old friends found!!

I am really loving the internet tonight and, more specifically, blogspot!!!! I just followed a link and found another old friend that I haven't heard anything about in years!! I reconnected with another friend a few days ago and that was so fantastic!! It's been about 6 years since I had contact with her. I love finding out where everyone is, how they are doing and what they have done in life. There are always surprizes and they've all been good, so far. I think I'll go see if I can find anyone else!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!!!!!!!

I hope you have all had a very wonderful Christmas morning!! We were all up nice and early by 7:30am (early, hahaha). We had a very nice morning opening and enjoying presents. My Mom and Dad and brother, Glen and his family, are all here. Mom and I have started dinner. We will be joined by my other brother, Rick, and his family later.
We got about 8" of snow overnight and another several inches since we woke up!!! The pictures from the other day don't even compare!!!!!!! It's still snowing and some are saying it is going to be the 'storm of the century'. We'll see.
I hope we can all have the spirit of Christmas with us throughout the coming year.

First Storm

WOW!!! That was quite a storm that came through in the last 48 hours. I'm not sure how much snow it actually dumped but we shoveled the driveway out twice yesterday and you can see how much we got last night in the photos above taken this morning. The top of the garbage can is my measuring gauge. It's pretty accurate as to how much we get even with wind. The wind was pretty high and drifted the snow. You can see how high it drifted against the garbage can. Yesterday it was completely clear around it!! It must have been a north wind last night because the front of the house (which faces north) is whitewashed from it.

My parents are on their way here from Colorado and got stuck behind road closures just an hour east of here. There are several ways around that particular spot but they were all closed due to drifting snow from the high winds. And there was a jack-knifed semi-truck on one of them, too. The plows are working hard to get the roads open and Mom and Dad should get here sometime before noon.

I LOVE WINTER!!!!!!!

An Ode to Mud

One of my friends lives in Arizona and hasn't gotten any snow, just rain. She asked if I could do a poem on mud. I think she was kidding but here's what I came up with!!

Mud, Mud everywhere,
on my shoes, in my hair??
Sloppy, slippery, gross and Yucky,
Can it get any more mucky?
It rained all day, it rained all night,
It's no use, why try to fight.
The kids are out in it now,
How will I clean them, how, oh, how?
Let them run, let them play,
Then I'll get out the hose and spray!!!
Mud, Mud everywhere,
on their shoes and in their hair.
Oh but Mom, it's fun.
You have to come try some!
Oh no, not me, you reply,
you just got some in my eye.
Out, out right now you go.
Why can't I just have some snow?

An Ode to Snow

Oh Snow, I see you there,
On the ground everywhere.
Falling softly from the sky,
you sometimes hit me in the eye.
White and cold, soft and light,
how much can pile up overnight!?
I shovel you off my driveway
I can't get it all, try as I may.
It really is a good workout
for my body round and stout.
Then I sit back and sip my cocoa,
listening to the radio, OH NO!!!!
Not another winter storm warning!!
Can't I relax tomorrow morning?
Oh Snow I see you there,
on the ground everywhere.
It's only December, or so they say.
I think I'll be shoveling 'til May!!!