Here at the AOW house today:
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| Our SW front yard |
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| E front porch and wheelchair ramp |
And it's still snowing!
The pantry is full, and I'll be cooking a roasted chicken this afternoon.
My days of shoveling snow are over, so once the snow stops, I'll be seeking someone to dig us out.
Not being far away, my view is the same. Fire going, coffee brewing.....waiting to see the forecast for the rest of the day. After “snowpocalypse” three years ago, I bought an ATV with a plow.....but I haven’t been able to play with it yet.
ReplyDeleteFauquier County roads don’t get cleared quickly....so also waiting to see if I can get out tomorrow for work, and if federal agencies will be open.
May I take it you haven't been furloughed by the Shutdown?
DeleteMaybe the snow will give you a pleasant day or two at home?
May it make a welcome change for you.
I’m not a government employee, I work at a government facility on a fully funded national security contract. The worst part of snow days are if government sites are closed for weather, I have to burn a vacation day.
DeleteAnd thank you, every day that I’m at home with my family (not overseas), is a pleasant day.
Looks like a nice neighborhood BTW, with plenty of older trees.
ReplyDeleteCI,
DeleteOne of these days not in the distant future, they will bulldoze all this and construct mega mansions.
We don’t live in a mega mansion, but rather in a pre-WW2 house; this used to be a farmette with a huge flock of chickens and a cow—as recently as 1949.
That would be a shame. Out west here, wooded areas along I-66 are all being cleared for townhomes.
DeleteCI,
DeleteThe tax rate here is running a lot of us out!
Relax and wait for help. I'd help but I can't afford to take the snowblower on the plane with me.
ReplyDeleteAt least one of my former homeschool students will show up. I hope!
DeleteGoing to be a snowy day, today! :)
ReplyDelete___ SNOW HAIKU ___
ReplyDeleteFresh snow at sunset
Trees glistening quietly
In pink and copper tones.
Snow covered branches
Thaw, then turn to crystal lace
Gleaming in sun light.
Melting on the ground
As snow deserts the branches
Black twigs claw the sky
~ FreeThinke
Your place looks awfully pretty in the snow, AOW.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Franco.
Delete___ MORE SNOW HAIKU ___
ReplyDeleteChildren all agog
As snow deepens on the ground
School is out today!
Mommy’s plans are shot
Grimly she brews more coffee
To steady her nerves.
Tugging on snowsuits
Zippering up galoshes
Soon she’ll make cocoa
Oatmeal cookies too
Need watching lest they get burned
She’ll be well prepared
Not the day she’d planned
But not so bad after all
Because she loves them.
~ FreeThike
Haiku are perfect for snowy days.
DeleteWhat excellent haikus! There were lots of them in the old days of blogland, but now there are few.
DeleteMust correct that.
It sifts from leaden sieves,
ReplyDeleteIt powders all the wood,
It fills with alabaster wool
The wrinkles of the road.
It makes an even face
Of mountain and of plain––-
Unbroken forehead from the east
Unto the east again.
It reaches to the fence,
It wraps it, rail by rail,
Till it is lost in fleeces;
It flings a crystal veil
On stump and stack and stem––-
The summer's empty room,
Acres of seams where harvests were,
Recordless, but for them.
It ruffles wrists of posts,
As ankles of a queen––
Then stills its artisans like ghosts,
Denying they have been.
~ Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
One of my favorite snow poems!
DeleteKind neighbors -- two ladies, one older than I -- showed up here a few minutes ago and cleared the ramp enough so that EMT's can get in if necessary.
ReplyDeleteStill waiting to see if any of the teens on our street come to shovel here.
Looks the same here AOW. I'll be putting gas in the snowblower shortly. 220 feet of driveway and 40X60 parking area. Yahoooo.
ReplyDeleteYikes!
DeleteBut I’m sure that you can handle it.
Beautiful! There's a sharp south westerly wind here in Texas today. Such is climate change. But I want snow. Different, I know, when you have to live with it for months, but still.
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