Daydreaming While Snowed In

I am taking sometime to enjoy my pictures on Picassa since I am snowed in.We shoveled out our driveway today but waiting till tomorrow to try and get out and about.The plow came through again today and scraped the road but it is still snow and ice covered.Maybe with the temperature raising into the upper 30's tomorrow we are hoping that the ice and snow will melt on the road.

We had such a nice time on our trip to Canada back in July.We stayed in Niagara Falls Canada and took one day trip to Toronto.Once we saw what Toronto had to offer we were wishing that we had planned more time for Toronto.

We went up in the CN Tower while in Toronto.This is a view of part of Toronto's skyline taken up in the CN Tower.It was amazing to me to see all of the different shapes and sizes of the high rise buildings from up so high.

I enjoy watching the TV show House Hunters on HGTV.It is such a thrill to see the CN Tower in the background whenever downtown Toronto is featured.

After The Storm

Here in the mountains of southern West Virginia we ended up with about a foot of snow from the storm system that went up the East coast.

I took this picture earlier today looking out our front door.The sun came out and blessed us with some much needed sunshine.It was rather deceiving though.The temperature was around 20 but with the brisk wind the wind chill was only 5.

Hubby Ken and I went out to shovel the driveway as we did last Friday and Saturday.Glad we did the shoveling then which has kept down the amount to shovel each time.We could only stay out there 1/2 hour.We didn't realize how cold it was going to feel out there.Made some progress on the driveway and will finish the job tomorrow.It is a light powdery snow.

Tomorrow we are suppose to see a high in the low 30's which will be such a blessing to get dug out.

We are suppose to see a warm up as the week progresses.May even get near 50 which we haven't seen in ages.

Snowy Christmas

I took this picture this morning looking out our back door.It wasn't snowing then but picked back up this afternoon.

Hubby Ken and I went out and shoveled our driveway once again to make room for other cars.This is the second day in a row that we have had to shovel our driveway.

Daughter Kimberly came over with grandson Jeremy and granddaughter Mariah.She has 4 wheel drive so it isn't that bad to drive on the snow.The snow picked back up in intensity on their drive over.Needless to say they didn't stay long.We were so disappointed.

The timing was a little off so our other daughter Karen and her hubby Brian arrived just a few minutes after Kimberly left with Jeremy and Mariah.Kimberly wanted to get going before the roads got much worse since she was with her children.They left before they could even eat anything.

Karen and Brian had spent sometime with Brian's parents earlier in the day and ate there.I planned that we would eat a little later so that they could eat with us too.We had a nice time sitting around and chatting then eating.Just disappointed that we couldn't have all of our family together at the same time.

I looked back at pictures I took last Christmas.Doesn't look like we had a snowy day but there was snow on the ground and our road was clear which made it much nicer to get out and about.

Christmas Eve 2010

Is that the sun that is brightly shining outside? I took this picture a few minutes ago.I want the picture to remind me that we actually saw the sun a few times in the month of December.

This has been a very snowy month for us here in our area of southern West Virginia.We will end the month setting a record for the amount of snow in the month of December.We broke the record last December and will break that record this December.I won't be surprised to see the amount of snow for this December to be at 30 inches or above.

We need to get outside and finish shoveling out our driveway.We had only shoveled the lower part of our driveway but now that Christmas is approaching we need to get the rest of the driveway shoveled just in case some family can make it to our house.

The snow on our car is left from the snow that we got Wednesday evening and yesterday.

Merry Christmas!

First Day of Winter

Today is the first day of winter which arrives with a nice blanket of snow on the ground.We will have a White Christmas even if we don't get the snow that is suppose to start Christmas Eve and continue Christmas day.

We really don't want to see the snow Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.We have had our fill of snow already and today is only the first day of winter.Our area has already experienced over 2 feet of snow this month with more expected.We will be setting a record for the most snowfall in the month of December.We broke that record last December and here we go again breaking it again.

Sadly,we live on a hill which makes it next to impossible to get back up our hill if we venture out with ice on the road.We found that out again this past Saturday evening.We got down our hill just fine.Had a nice day seeing Yogi Bear the movie with our grandson then out to eat and finally the much needed trip to the grocery store.We hadn't been able to get out in a week.We started up our hill and got stuck.A nice gentleman came by in his pick-up truck wanting to get up the hill.He got out of his truck and gave us a hand.Got us dug out where we were stuck then told Ken to back down the hill and give it a better start.Ken tried and made it up the hill just past our neighbor's driveway but couldn't get any further.Thankfully our neighbor has two driveways so the kind guy helped Ken shovel out an area of our neighbor's driveway so that we could pull in there.

While they were shoveling out our neighbor's driveway I was going back up and down the hill with our bags of groceries.What a chore that was.

I've been quite surprised that with all of the shoveling and hiking up and down the hill with the groceries that I haven't experienced any aches and pains the following days.I haven't minded shoveling the snow.I don't like the cold air that goes along with it.

By the way,I took this picture looking out our back door just a little bit ago.As you can see, we have plenty of snow.We had ice on top of the snow so it is nice and crunchy when you walk.We had a dusting of snow this morning but so far our weather hasn't turned out as bad as they had feared.They were predicting snow,sleet,freezing rain then rain.For now I would just as soon see plain ole rain.

Snow!

This is the scene on my back deck as I look out my back door.We have had non stop snow since this past Saturday.The sun is shining brightly today with this being the first day without snow coming down since Friday.

We went out on Friday and got prepared for what they were saying 3-5 inches of snow.They weren't saying anything about the snow continuing on past the weekend.The forecast then changed from a Winter Weather Advisory to a Winter Storm Warning.

Schools are finally back in session.They had been closed through yesterday.

Last year the snow didn't start till December 18th which was our grandchildren last day of school before their Christmas break.Now they have two days this week and maybe 5 days next week till their Christmas break.

The reason I say maybe is that another storm is brewing for this weekend.It is suppose to start out as rain on Saturday then change over to snow on Sunday and continue on with upslope snow showers on Monday and Tuesday.

Our grandson's holiday music program was cancelled due to no school this past Tuesday.Our granddaughter's holiday music program is scheduled for next Tuesday evening.Wonder if it will happen?

Oh..it was only 0 when I got up this morning.

Thankful Thursday

This is a picture of a lovely church in downtown Philadelphia PA.I took this picture in June of 2009.Been thinking of our visit to that wonderful on a few different occasions the last few weeks.

I am thankful for freedom of religion.Our grandson is studying The Constitution in 4th grade.I've been going over his reading story in regards to The Constitution this afternoon.I am so thankful for The Constitution that gives us freedom of religion amongst other things.

I am thankful that we have the freedom to travel our country and learn about our history and vast land.Our trip to Philadelphia has really helped our grandson as he studies The Constitution.We visited Independence Hall and saw The Liberty Bell.I took a picture of our grandson in front of The Liberty Bell.

I am thankful that I grew up in the Washington DC area and had the opportunities to visit the national monuments and museums as often as I did.That helped me in school when it came time to learn about our country.The sad thing is that I never visited the historic area of Philadelphia until a year and a half ago.So glad I had that opportunity.

Another place that we visited in downtown Philadelphia was Macy's Department Store.What a beautiful store that one.About a week or so ago I watched a You Tube video of a combined Philadelphia area choir singing The Hallelujah Chorus in Macy's Department Store.Really enjoyed that video.What a magnificent place to sing The Hallelujah Chorus.I really appreciated that video.