Tuesday Tidbits: IT'S SNOWING! FOR REAL THIS TIME

I know last time I titled a post "It's Snowing" (two weeks ago), it was because it hadn't snowed and I wanted to show off the cute snowmen my family and I made. But now we actually got snow.

4-6 inches. That's respectable.

Once in high school, we got about this much snow and didn't have school for a week.

Crazy, huh?

Well, not so crazy.

Here in the Seattle area, we don't get much snow, so the only snow-removal system is the sun. I know, you think that we don't know what the "sun" is, but I assure you we do and don't take it for granted when it pokes through the clouds. Well, it stayed cloudy and cold all week, so streets and hills turned into ice and the buses couldn't run safely. Yay! We had fun playing in it.

Pretty snow accenting this huge tree.

Not sure what kind of trees these are, but
they apparently keep their leaves year-round.

My hubby scraping one of the cars to
run some errands. I'm staying inside.

Buffy, my Norwegian Forest cat (a 100% indoor cat)
deciding if she wants to experience this white stuff.

She decided to, but only for a moment
because her mommy was cold. Brrrrrrr!

I like living in a place where we get the occasional fall. It makes it special.

And we aren't having to go outside and shovel every other day.

=0)


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Snow

I woke this morning to an inch of snow. And it's snowing again. Fortunately the pavement is warm enough to melt what hits it so the roads are just wet.

I thought we were done with snow for the school year. I was hoping so. We had a big storm a week ago Friday. It was a snow-day for the schools. But the roads weren't too bad. We had over a foot of snow and when I drove twenty minutes to the south end of town, they had no snow, dry roads, and the sun was shining.

Some times it seems like my end of town is in an alternate dimension.

I'm so ready for spring. But what can you do when you live int he mountains.

So I'll snuggle up with a cup of tea and do a little sewing or reading.

Springtime in the Rockies

I woke up Easter morning to 4” of snow. I wasn’t expecting that. The weatherman said it was supposed to be in the 40s on Sunday and therefore the precipitation we were expecting should have been rain. Imagine that, the weatherman was wrong.

It was one of those really, really wet, mushy snows. Shoveling that kind of snow is really hard. It’s heavy and it sticks to the shovel. It snowed that way all day.

And today? We have sunshine and it’s supposed to get up into the 50s. Most of this snow, if not all, will be gone by the end of the day. This is what is meant by springtime in the Rockies. Snow shovels one day and the next day you may need your shorts.

My daughter is ready for the snowy, cold days to be over. She wants a real spring.

Some real spring weather would be nice but then it would be harder to be indoors at my computer all day. Work, work, work. And all of mine is the indoors kind. Even so, I too look forward to nicer weather. Hopefully it stays.

Hope you had a good Easter.