Who’s up for some hot cocoa?!
See, I told you all that rain would turn to snow! And boy howdy, has it. I will admit, this is the first time I’ve seen snow this hard and fast since those fabled storms in 2005. I don’t think this storm will rival those by any means, but it looks to give us a fair amount of the white stuff. Oh, and the rain never did let up today. I took a nap while Liam was napping this afternoon and I kid you not, I had a dream where it was raining. Everything was getting washed and flooded out. Then I woke up and saw that, yep, everything is getting washed and flooded out.
Kile got home just as the snow was starting and piling up, so that was very good timing (note his white van out at the curb there). I feel like I took this picture a mere half hour ago and already there is twice as much snow out there. The flakes are ginormous too, which is great fun. Harry is way psyched, plenty of snow to play in tomorrow. Maybe we’ll even bundle Liam up and let him have at it. In the meantime, we’re having chili for dinner and are going to admire the pretty snow from the comfort and warmth of our cozy home.
The flakes will eat us all!!!
We’re currently being slammed by a storm that everyone here in town is just losing their freakin’ minds over. The checkout lady at Walmart yesterday actually referred to it as “The Storm of the Century”. Uh, no. We had that back in 2005, remember? I’ve got the steel pins in my ankle to prove it. I don’t doubt that it’ll be quite the storm, but let’s just settle down for a minute, okay? Yesterday, it started with the winds and if there’s any weather phenomena I can do without, it’s wind. Early this morning, the rain started. And, as sometimes happens when you get a gnarly storm, it hasn’t stopped since. So my backyard now looks like this:
Attractive, no? I wonder why on earth I want to actually LANDSCAPE the thing. It’s just so beautiful the way it is.
And yes, that is a chunk of fence already missing from the back there. The winds, they were mean. But thankfully, they died down last night and never really picked back up again. They were supposed to be around 30 miles per hour last night and pretty much all day today. But so far? Just rain. And I can do that. I can do rain. And theoretically, this rain is supposed to turn to snow later this afternoon/evening. And then it’s supposed to snow all weekend. Wee! I can’t wait until all this rain FREEZES under that snow. I may never leave the house again.
But yes, the news is losing their damn minds over the storm too and has gone so far as to tell people to stay off the mountains for fear of their IMMINENT DEATH. I kid you not. Being that we are technically located in the “foothills”, we will probably get more snow that in town but as long as it’s less than the FOUR FEET we got from the New Years 2005 storm, I refuse to be impressed.
However, I may take pictures. Be prepared for that.
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This is me. I'm a thirtysomething stay at home mom to three kids. For years I was a stay at home mom to one kid and trying very hard to have more. It took a LONG time (ie: 6 1/2 years), but finally Liam arrived and charmed us with his blue eyes and ginormous, round head. Then we got a shock: I was pregnant again and this time it was a GIRL. Our hearts and home are full at last and now that we're done having babies, we get to relax (snort) and watch them grow (not too fast now, you hear?). Thanks for coming by, feel free to dip into my archives, read my About and History pages (just don't do Jackson's Story without tissues!) and make yourself at home.
