Its amazing but we’ve had a string of days this week that felt like temperature got into the 70s! I was out raking leaves in shorts and a tank top after work yesterday (just before the rain) and was quite comfortable. The pond has finally thawed and it looks like there are a dozen or so large goldfish swimming around in there! They survived all that snow and ice!
I’ll get out there with my camera this weekend and get some current pictures!

Here’s a picture from Feb 7, 2003 – all Snowed In!

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Icicle Cathedral

Just another digital picture from the big snowstorm of February 18th – this shows some of the icicles hanging off our raingutters … Click to see a larger version

Just a quick snap from some pictures I took at church after Friday’s snow …

Seems we just got over the last snowfall, when another came our way. We woke early Saturday so we could get downtown for the 9am plenary speech at the True Spirit conference – and found the snowstorm had started overnight Friday, but wasn’t too much trouble with our drive downtown. We stayed at the Conference ’til about 2PM, and planned to staff the MCC NOVA table Sunday – but when we woke early Sunday, we found a good foot of snow was on the ground and more was falling. It was enough that they called it a snow day for church – something that had never happened in the 5 years I’ve been a member of MCC NOVA! The local Highway admins were requesting people stay off the roads – Serious stuff – we stayed in and watched it fall, hiked out back to check on the pond, then came in and had cheesey brocoli soup (yum!).
It was serious enough that they shut down the federal Government on Tuesday while the road crews plowed again and again to get the snow out of the way! Ah well, tomorrow is Weds – back to work!

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Note the bench mid-picture that is buried up to the seat!

Note the depth of the snow drifts by the cars

Friday February 7th we had another morning snowstorm – I woke at 4:30 and, after checking the news and the reports of a half-foot of snow, decided the best plan was to stay off the roads
So, I called in snowbound and once it had gotten lighter, I went around the backyard with the trusty Olympus Digicam taking pictures … here’s a sample!

As usual, click the image to see a larger version

It may be that I’m not cut out for this online diary thing. I was perhaps more inclined for this sort of thing when I went through my life-changes in my late 30s … but its more than I’m willing to share at this point.
One good thing … we got Kitties Jan 17th! They are just now staring to settle in – a pair of Himalayans – the girl is a seal point, the boy is a lilac point …very cute, but pretty shy for the most part. Em calls the girl cat Dolly Lama Diva … I was calling the boy cat Winston Purrchill – then we decided he really looked more like Teddy Roosevelt than Churchill … I keep singing McCartney’s song “Teddy Boy” at him … but of course he doesn’t get it …
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