Finally! It's snowing!
#21
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I am so very glad you are getting the snow. It always looks beautiful but I am also very goad it is there and not here. Our youngest son has to gt out and work in that slop. We in the SOUTH are not prepared for such weather. Most don't know how to drive in it and get out in the vehicles and act like fools. We have no snow plows, etc. , just sand the bridges, roads not safe to be driving on. Oh well, God gives us what he thinks we need, sometimes I think he is just testing my patience.
Have a wonderful day.
Have a wonderful day.
#22
I live in Montana now use to be Wyoming and winter is my favorite season I love the snow when all is white and so clean and a good snowy day is always a time for a pot of soup maybe a pie in the oven and a good quilting day our ground has been white now for a few weeks and we are suppose to get more this week with roads and weather permitting a day trip is always fun enjoyed a ride last week to the winter ground of the mountain sheep they are such fun to watch our next trip will be into Yellowstone wish I knew how to post pictures
#23
Us tough old birds can handle anything!!!!! Except the snow shoveler that never showed up. I was diagnosed with CHF congestive heart failure) last March and had to hire a snow shoveler - he came twice and that was it. So far we have only had two snowfalls over 3" in St. Paul. And one snow emergency. Had to spend the money someplace!!!!! But cold - holy cats it is cold. My Zebra Finches, take Kleenexes and put them in their little "bed" (food dish) and they cover themselves up to keep warm. The parakeets are flitting and flapping and keeping themselves warm. I cover the cages at night. But as long as the streets are relatively clear, I am ok. Gotta get milk and bananas at the store today. I either go before traffic starts or when traffic is over. Winter here depends on traffic!!!!! Bad - stay home/not bad - go for it!!!!!! 2-1/2 months of winter left. Have been working on a quilt for almost a year now and it is just a quilt that needs mending, a new back and top. Made 15 blocks and am now in the process of tying it down - have three left to go and then do some cutting and binding sewing. I am figuring a couple more weeks. Then I am going to start on my Jelly Roll/Strip/charm quilt for me ----- 102x120! It is a personal quilt with everything that refers to my new life since March, 2013. My husband died.
So, all you Minnesotans, buckle down - it's almost over - Thursday it should be a heat wave around +20*. I think it is the German/Swedish/ Skandahoovian blood that we have running through our veins. Have a great day. Get an orchid at Trader Joes. I have eight and they are getting ready to bloom on my sewing table and they (a flower) blooms for more than a month. Love those flowers. Edie
So, all you Minnesotans, buckle down - it's almost over - Thursday it should be a heat wave around +20*. I think it is the German/Swedish/ Skandahoovian blood that we have running through our veins. Have a great day. Get an orchid at Trader Joes. I have eight and they are getting ready to bloom on my sewing table and they (a flower) blooms for more than a month. Love those flowers. Edie
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Edie I loved your letter you sound like a person with a great attitude I would much rather be here in the snow than the southern heat with humidity where they feed the chickens ice cubes so they don't lay hard boiled eggs enjoy your quilting and I hope you find someone to shovel snow I to have congestive heart failure and am on oxygen 24/7 so I don't get out much
#28
You won't get tired of the snow as long as you've built up your stash, have a generator, a gravity fed well, and a woodstove for heat.
We finally have our winter weather in NC. It's snowing beautifully and the best part is it's to warm to stick! Of course I've been sitting in the rocking chair drinking coffee and watching the flakes drift down. Eventually I need to get up and get into the quilting cave. When we retire in 4 years we are looking to head to the mountains of Virginia and I do wonder if I will then get tired of snow. Nah, don't think so!
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Actually those are some of the must haves on my list for our next home. If the ice storm hits as hard as we are hearing I'll wish I had that generator tonight!
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Location: Piedmont Virginia in the Foothills of the Blue Ridge Mtns.
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My Ancestry DNA tells me I am majorly Scot and English with a small percentage of "Scandinavian"....must be Vikings, don't you think, hmmm? I, too, am determined to visit Scotland fore I leave this earth. Let's go together!!
Also, when you move to VA, with a generator and accessories, I'll just bring fabric and come stay with you during these "winter storms". Jamie and Claire I am not, as far as roughing it goes!!
Of course, you do know Wythe..... is catching the brunt of this one, right?
Jan in whiteout VA
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