8 posts tagged “snow”
I'm thrilled with the snow, its what I had been waiting for all winter, but its caused a ton of problems for our weekend plans. Jon's little brother was scheduled to fly in to Cincinnati yesterday, but his flight had been canceled because of the storm. He was rescheudled to fly in this afternoon but there is a blizzard warning until this evening and we are unsure if he is going to make it through. Even if his plane is able to land, we still have to drive an hour in blizard conditions to pick him up. It's definitely not optimal.
But gosh its pretty.
I took a little time this morning to play with Luna outside in the snow and caught this beautifully intense shot, only she could pull off looking so elegant while covered in snow.
While watching my invigorated puppy race around the back yard, something rubbed off and I was overcome with the urge to build a snowman. I found myself rolling a snowball and the next thing I knew I had four feet of snow built up and was running around the kitchen searching for edible facial features and extra winter accessories.
The afternoon the sun came out and after my ritual Sunday grocery shopping we headed to the park to find a sledding hill. No one was out there today so we lucked out with our own private hill.. Luna, Jon and I spent hours laughing in the snow, well Luna didn't laugh but she sure did smile a lot.
I've never been sledding and have never really experienced any winter-time sports so I had a complete blast! And I'm pooped.
Its been months of winter and cold temperatures but no snow here in Kentucky. While the rest of the mid west/central US is under twenty inches were dry as a bone and freezing cold. Finally today the light snow fell long enough to accumulate two inches, just enough to play in!
I've lived in Kentucky (my idea of the north) for over a year now and have not had the chance to drive in snow or ice. Jon has always taken the wheel when anything got messy, but now that we are no longer sharing a ride to work I have to drive myself and this morning I ventured out into a world blanketed in white. The outer loop on my commute was fine in fact I was flying as usual with no slippage. Maybe I got confident or overly excited about how beautiful everything looked covered in snow but when i got on the road to my office I fishtailed, I could feel the car move to the right then to the left and I tried my best not to completely freak out. I'd remembered Jon told me not to break if i hit ice so I just took my foot off the gas and tried to fight the urge not to turn the wheel. I saw a light on my dashboard and I laughed as i realized the little picture that lit up looks just like I did at the moment (a car with swervey lines behind it) I thought "oh look, even the car is mocking me!" I later discovered that this is something called "traction control" which I didn't know my car had and is a good thing... After a few heart pounding seconds I gripped the snow covered road again. For the next couple hundred yards I crept at a snail's pace and worried about the upcoming multiple hairpin turns I would have to make to get in my parking lot. I made it fine but when it came time to park I couldn't see the parking lines.. so i guessed.
I've made it sound like its a foot of snow on the ground... oh the horror! When really its only about a half an inch but for a girl from sunny Florida who's never driven in snow or ice, its a scary thing. I love the snow (just not driving in it)
One thing I love about living in the center of this great country is shipping! What a strange thing to love, but I do. In south west Florida when you ordered something by mail it would take two to three weeks to receive. But now in Kentucky when I order something its here in two to four days! No exaggeration and if I order from Amazon and get their super slow free shipping deal I get the package next day, because the Amazon warehouse is literally two towns away. The books I ordered two days ago are at my door with free shipping, its fantastic. Although I do feel like I’ve spent a large amount of money recently at least I’m not spending it on shipping costs. See there is an upside to everything.
Everyone is out of the office this week; they’ve all got Fifth disease. (Insert estranged laugh) or otherwise known as slapped cheek syndrome. I’m not making this up. It’s a childhood disease that causes a red rash to appear on the face and high fever. It’s extremely contagious and has been spreading like wildfire between co-workers and family. Luckily I haven’t been showing any symptoms and if you’ve had it as a child then you’re immune. So I’m here waiting to see if anyone else shows up to work today.
I’ve got my fingers crossed and I’m waiting for snow. This storm is really iffy, one minute up to a foot of snow is predicted and the next its just rain. So I patently wait until tomorrow and hope that on my day off I can sled down an abandoned hill and build a snowman to my hearts desire. I think Kentucky is beautiful in every season, but in winter when everything is covered in snow the hills are so majestic. This is a picture taken by one of my Flickr buddies, she lives just outside of Lexington and it’s a perfect example of what I want to see tomorrow.
Well I’ve officially done it; I’ve gotten all of my Christmas shopping done before Thanksgiving! It’s a large weight off of my shoulders and the stores were already starting too look like a war zone. But everyone’s covered even the in-laws. I’m good.
On Saturday morning I took a drive to Berea (a nearby artist community/town) the local arts college was having a sale on all of their furniture and woodworking. They didn’t have anything that caught my eye as a must have, mostly cutting boards and rolling pins from freshmen woodworkers, stuff that my husband could make in a synch. But I was on a mission, last year we found cedar snowflakes carved in the prettiest pattern at the artist center and we’d only bought one, I wanted more so this was my calling, to find those wooden snowflakes. We went to the artist center and there they were hidden on a small shelf in the back of the room where no one could find them, we had the pick of the litter and took home an odd number of seven. I can’t wait to add them to my tree.
Later that afternoon we took Luna to the park and played fetch for a good hour. I mastered the Frisbee and took many pictures of my pupparoo. It was cold and wet out but we still had fun and she was one tired girl.
This morning I woke up to a sprinkling of snow on the ground. Just enough to welcome winter.
