Christmas Is All In The Heart - Steven Curtis Chapman

This is one of my favorite Christmas songs (by one of my favorite singers!) and I thought the part about it not being about the snow that may or may not fall was fitting for this snow-less Christmas. ;)

first snow

sO since Katy always posts about their first snow fall of the year...I decided to post about our first snow of the year. Out here in the Midwest we've been waiting for snow for months and all we've seen so far is a couple flurries, which don't really count as the first snow fall since they don't stick. Leading up to today it's been FREEZING cold and the weather people on tv have been talking about how we might get a little...but then we don't. and then all of sudden on a day with only a 20 percent chance of snow...I get woken up by everyone trying to be the first to tell me that we have like half an inch of snow! And it's keep snowing all day! :) Which makes me happy! :)

So anyway here are a couple pix! :)

Snow?

Snow? In October? Well, last night we did get a small amount of snow! It melted very quickly but it was there all the same! I didn't get any pictures of it, but tomorrow night we may be getting another storm, so I might get pictures of that for you guys. I just hope our power won't get knocked out!
I for one wouldn't mind if the snow held off until at least late November!

the 130th post, getting ready for winter

This is my blog's 130th post! :) Thanks for your help with the posts, R &P! Hope we can keep posting awesome stuff! :)

In New England, it's like suddenly, you start to notice not all of the leaves are green anymore...at first you try to ignore these first signs of the coming colder seasons. As much as you try to ignore them, though, the leaves all begin to turn...brown, yellow, orange, red...and soon you're in Autumn, that season where there are the crisp smells of the leaves and a woody, sooty smell of woodsmoke...maybe even that not-as-nice smell of of burning leaves.

Finally today, they're getting rid of a branch that mostly came off a tree across the street during Hurricane Irene. Turns out the got rid of the whole tree, too...but it sure took them long enough to do anything about that branch! Maybe they thought the person who's property the tree is on (although I'm not sure where their property line is) would be getting rid of it. At any rate, the tree guys are taking care of it now, and because the tree is close to a power line, it's probably best they do it anyway.

It's getting pretty brisk around here...the humidity is gone, only coming back with rainy weather. The weather is cool and a bit blustery at times. We're on our way to Winter, whether we like it or not--but, we've still got a lot of Autumn to look forward to. Raking leaves, and Thanksgiving...and perhaps more raking leaves!

My going forth and conquering! ;)

As Katy told me to do, I went forth and conquered! The snow on our roof over the porch that is! ;) It was fun! Although that might be because I did a lot of playing around while working. lol but here are some pix!

the forecast on Yahoo for yesterday! :D

my snow angle before I started working...it looks weird...

me w/ the shovel, ready to conquer!

me and my snowperson! I can't decide if it's a snowman or a snowwoman... but notice the AZ hat? ;)

the pile of snow that is partly from the roof! I took it from the roof, later I want to go jump into that pile of snow b/c it's really big! :D

I'll post more pix of the snow later, but I don't want this post to get TOO long... :D Anyway I hope you all enjoyed the pix!

lots of snow

It's been snowing all day practically!! In New England, it's possible to get this much snow, but it's not exactly the norm. Well, in addition to snow we already had, we now have a bunch more piled on top of that, adding up to an amount of snow that basically reached my knee. It's really crazy. But cool! To get a better idea of what it looks like, here's some pictures! :)

It's quite the job walking through such deep snow where there aren't any paths.

The barn got dumped on quite a bit!

Looks like a winter wonderland...

Shoveling all this is quite a job!