Thank you, Sheena!

Elizabeth wrote

I agree with you. There is nothing like the totally clean look and smell of the world after a snowfall. I love sitting by a window while a winter snowstorm blows outside; it feels so comfortable. Even better if it is night and you can light some candles for that warm yellow light. I have several very big fir trees to dance in the wind and fling snow off their branches, so I get a good show in a storm.

It is reported that we have had our coldest winter in 30 years, with a total of 60 days where the temperature was -30 or under, and twice -40 without the windchill. It would be awfully miserable living here if you could not find something to appreciate in the winters.

The snow along the path I shovel to the my driveway is now over hip high. A friend who put in a high fence so her Doberman did not bark at people going by reports that with the high snow, he can easily climb up and pop his head over to bark, which does startle passers by.

Dawne

Hee hee !

Did I hear a cackle??? Wish I could send you some of this freezing rain that we're getting - I don't think it's ever going to stop. Hate the stuff.

Sharon (N.B.)

Oh come on ! You're the person who hates summer and loves winter !

The first power outages are reported here, keeping my fingers crossed now.

I was wondering if you got snow... It is no school day here. I'm reading and stitching

Not just the smell but the blanket of quiet...nothing like listening to an early morning after a snowfall... there's a heavy quality to the air and deadened sound.

sue

Ah, you're inspiring me. I love watching the dog in the snow. Puckster is a hoot, especially when he does that Springer "sproing" bouncing up into the air. He's thrilled - of course the snowballs that his spaniel feet become are another story.

Same to you. As I gear up to go out - you can tell I'm delaying. And then looking forward to hot chocolate on the return (with my lovely Penzey's cocoa - yum). Already have leftover soup from the batch I made yesterday, and, well then I'm thinking of making green chili stew for dinner - just not too hot. It's light - DH should be fine....

Ellice

You make me feel like such a wimp. Don't you have a snow blower? I bet the dog peering over the fence is a sight to behold.

Keep warm.

ellice

It's not supposed to rain in winter - it's supposed to snow. You Haligonians get this crap ... and you can have it. No power outages here yet - and I sure hope it doesn't happen. How's a girl to stitch with no power? Getting out of making supper tho' is something to think about. :-))

Sharon (N.B.)

All true. I used to miss it when I wa going to school in FL in the winter (had a weird childhood). For some writing assignment in maybe 8th grade honors english, I recall writing about the sound of snow. I think it was actually a poem - the crunch, etc. I think we were supposed to write about something that would be unfamiliar to our classmates - so that worked for me.

What I hate - when I'm about finished shoveling, and the plow guy comes by and pushes all the heavy, wet, compacted rocks of snow onto my nice, cleared droveway apron - causing me to spend another half-hour of much more heavy lifting. Yuck - but last year DH cracked a bumper on the TT hitting some frozen lump that the plow had pushed up.

Back from the lovely, sunny, windy, outdoors - now to go for some lunch!

ellice

I don't have a snowblower--not-quite-ex H has it out at the lake, and honestly, he needs it more than I do. We have had -30 with windchill sort of weather the last week, but today it is only -15. By tomorrow we might be all the way to freezing rain.

Yes, it made me laugh to imagine being more or less eye to eye with a big red Doberman with a lolling tongue grin because he had just barked in my ear!!

Dawne