The Winter Storm Feb 2010

Rose and I were out walking today looking at the storm damage from the Wind and Snow storm the 25th-27th, walking is about all we can do as this chest cold we have is nasty, it's on it's way out now but the congestion lingers for weeks.

We let Willow out in the field today for a run, he wasn't really interested in running in 6+ inches of snow and within a half hour was standing by the gate ready to come back in. We're still 2-3 weeks + from having bare fields here.

THE STORM
Seems we were pretty lucky I guess, "Mom's Pastries" across the way got hit hard, a tree came down on their porch roof, they still have a construction crew over there repairing the damage, we had some roofing blow off the barn, a section of the metal roof on the workshop needs to be re-nailed back down. We were without power Friday but got it back later in the day, lost power Friday morning at 4am and didn't get it back until Tuesday night 3/2 at 4pm. As I sad we were lucky we were able to save the big freezers contents.

Rose's Glass Top table, the 20+ lb glass sheets were lifted out of the table a smashed themselves against the back of the house 30 feet away.





The Greenhouse fared little better, (The covers been off) The end of the hothouse is now disconnected and leans.














The small shed that was against the back of the house is now tipped over, afraid to try and right this one, ugh. It's full of candles, lanterns and all manner of summer stuff. Chloe is certain that there is a chipmunk living inside and is camped near is most of the afternoon.







SPRING IS COMING

Spring is almost here though, the Crocuses are pushing their way through the leaves, Rosie raked them to give them more sun.

Sunrise 2-21

Quite the surprise this morning, got up early for coffee and through the corner of my window shade as my PC warmed up I saw this.

Chain Reaction - The Game

Say Goodbye to the next 3 hours... At least...

Chain Reaction - The Game

WOW - Feeling a little small now...

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YouTube - Buy, Buy American Pie

YouTube - Buy, Buy American Pie

You're how old? My Birthday, 7am, and I need Coffee...

I got up early this morning, I distinctly smelled coffee, so I got up. Must have been next door making coffee, so I started the coffeepot and "What do my wondering eyes do appear?"  Looking down the driveway like I do every morning,  "What the heck is that looks like a bees nest hanging in the bushes", how could I have missed that before?  Then I see another curiously round orb hanging in the tree...  Hmm,  off to the dining room to get a better look, Oh Nooo!  Appears there were elves here overnight, yes overnight as the display is covered with frost...  I watch CSI you know.   Rose went out to take a better look, (or maybe so she could laugh out loud without me hearing...) she walked down to the barn because she said all the cars driving by were slowing down to a crawl... She had to see why... Oh no, Donnie wait'll you see...  

What is that a bees nest?

 Oh It gets better....

Oh, And there's more...

 

We're not done yet...

And still more... Yes those are little Pink Flamingos in the snow to the left of the barn.

Oh and as I'm taking these pics the neighbor walks by

and asks me "who's 50!" Ugh...

But wait look, someone left footprints, perfectly preserved footprints in the snow,

they look like girl boots to me... remember I watch CSI... you can even read the boot size...

I will find you....  and when I do just wait... you'll be old some day too...  huahahaha...

Well it's a good day to be "50" anyway!

 Thanks whoever you are, it made my morning!

-Don

WInter Wonderland

A "winter wonderland" Monday morning we received another 4+ inches of snow. I still need to get the snowblower running and remove it before we get the rain this weekend and it freezes solid. The sun came out and lit up the Blue Spruce out front!

Immersive Media

You have to check out these demo videos.

Immersive Media

Good day for a pot of Chili

Twenty degrees and windy today so Rose and I made up a three gallon pot of Chili this morning, it's been simmering all day, ok since 10am anyway, (pretty good batch too.) I've had the arduous task of testing it as we added the appropriate ingredients, Stew beef, hamburg, Chili pepper, some Thia peppers, Onion, black pepper, salt, chili powder, Red Hot and Cumin as the day progressed, and finally at 3pm the beans we added, now at 4pm it's very good. 

I made us ap couple of pans of Penguin Brand corn bread (one of the best there is in a mix, if you can find it)

Jarrod, Crystal and the boys are coming over for 4pm to help me test the Chili out, if it's a good batch we'll give them some and freeze some for later.

Off to get me some Chili...

January 2nd snow

Well here we are in 2010 "Twenty Ten"

I just snow-blo'd the walks and front yard for the dogs.  Fairly light though 6-8" of sticky snow, we're supposed to snow pretty much through tomorrow morning, 'be interesting to see if we can keep the lights on today.  No sign of the fox today I looked, saw a few mole/mouse/chippy holes over by the barn though.

Just read the net jobs data since 2000-2009 says "net zero"  lets hope this improves soon.

Both of the pellet stoves are cranking it'll soon be to hot and we'll have to tone them down a bit.

The New Years Eve Blue Moon

The New Years Eve Blue Moon