White Christmas, You Poor Bastards...
 

Well, looks like all of our Cellarites in and around the Cellar's home base are going to get bombed over the next 24 hours. We will all expect pictures and horror stories! Good luck. May the Force be with you!

Ha! Ha! Clear and sunny here. Take that! :p

We have achieved White Out.

My roommate is picking up a family member from PA because of one of the recent ice storms up there. He flipped his vehicle and trailer.

Be safe guys! :)

Quiet, you! No one cares about snowfall in Britain! Drop us a line when the tsunami overruns London!! (I saw 2012 last night...)

It's been snowing for an hour now. Everything is white. They are now predicting 1-2 feet.

What the hell?!

Holy crap!

26 degrees, sunny, and RFN there are two nice young women in bikinis sunbathing in the park just across the road. I swear. They are about 50 meters away and easily visible out the window as I type this. There will be no pics, though, that would be rather dodgy/pervy. Also I think one is my neighbour/landlord's daughter.

Life is good.

At 7am, there are around 4-6 inches. At least that's my best guess poking my head out the door. Thank god for kids who are excited to go out to the curb to get the newspaper.

pretty!! love the lights!!

Finally we got some snow. Only about an inch, but it's snow. Hebe's B'day party today, though, and an away hockey game, so more of a hindrance than a help, but ...yay snow!

We had another dusting last night.
Enough to cover the ground and obscure yesterday's footprints, but nothing more.

Monday is supposed to be heavier though, nd we're still below 0 (C) as I type. PROPER winter weather, yay! Almost makes me wish I'd bought that jacket. Meh, cape is fine.

Well, I looked out the window when I first got up (about an hour ago) and pilau's paw prints were still there from last night. Then I looked out a half hour later, and it was snowing heavily.

THis means mum isn't happy about the idea of driving, so we can't go to Pets At Home for the boys' kibble. They;'re going to have to eat tinned food today (which means Pil wil probably have a bad tum). I hope it doesn't snow again tomorrow, I dont want Pil eating tinned food for days on end!

I can see why she wouldn't want to drive though. There's a distinct possibility the car wouldn't make it back up the Hough to her house (half of the lane is cobbled and it doesn't take much of a snow fall for it to become undrivable).

We got a dusting. :rolleyes:

Nice!

"Nice", is subjective. :lol:
This storm is a repeat of a pattern we've seen a dozen times, in the last six months. Those storms dropped from one, to as much as four, inches of rain in a day or two. This time it was cold, and I would assume if the pattern continues, it will be cold for future storms... at least for the next few months. So, unless the weather pattern changes, we'll be up to our poopers in snow, by spring. :mg:

It's 51 degrees and raining. It feels almost warm after the last month.
The geese/ducks are flying in and the frogs are a croaking.

We got 18 inches. I'm exhausted after shoveling our driveway, and the driveway of the little old lady behind us, and the walkway for the old guy across the street. Mrs. glatt helped a lot, and the kids even helped a little. Still, I would have preferred a snow blower.

The kids are loving it though.

I knew you'd be a good neighbor glatt... now you've got the sore back to prove it!

lol. That last pic reminds me of the one and only time in my childhood when we actually got snowed in! My big brother had the brilliant idea of trying to build an igloo! we spent ages digging our way through the snow and trying to compact it into slabs for building. I think we ended up with a circularish wall, with no roof. but my memory is very vague and I may have embellished it :P

We've had a lot of snow today. It's been snowing on and off pretty much all day. I took Pilau for a long walk, as the snow was deep enough for me to have decent grip: hence risking taking my husky-wannabe along Upper Lane, something I would not risk if it was compacted down and slippy!

It was amazing. Alas no photos (see 'what's mildly irritatng you today') as I hadnt charged camera :(

So, you'll have to make do with a mere description. The entire village was blanketed in several inches of snow. The lanes aren't gritted, so they looked perfect and white. We went the back way along Upper Lane, and through the quiet end of the village, past the stables and the farms and onto the fields. Accross the top field (which was great: I let Pilau have a run off his lead and he was barrelling about the place with great enthusiasm) over the rise and up onto the bluff. The view from there is magnificent! I've posted pics of it in the Summer, but in winter, oh! The valley stretches out in front of you, winding off into the distance, its slopes, a patchwork of farmland and heather and woods, broken up by the dark smudges of dry stone walls. We took the long route home, through winding lanes, the uneven broken lines of the drystone walls at the sides of the lane, picked out in white. there were horses in the paddock, wearing coats and tugging at bundles of hay which were slung from the fence posts. In one of the fields we went past, there wasa small flock of sheep; their coats long and straggly for the winter; they seemed to be successfully locating stalks of grass through the snow. The longer grass stalks were poking through in a few places, shockingly dark agaist the white.

Beautiful, just beautiful. The views, especially over the valley, were breathtaking.

On the way back, and with about 20 minutes of walking still ahead of us, the snow started to get heavier and then before i knew it we were walking through a full on blizzard. Couldn't see more than a few yards ahead. (This time Els, it was a proper White Out :P) Everywhere was white and the wind was driving the snow into a frienzy as it fell. I saw a lone, pale grey dove trying to fly to a tree. It was being buffeted back and forth, but eventually made it to a branch.

When we eventually made it back home, Pilau was almost more snow than beardie. He'd obviously enjoyed it a lot because he'd brought back a large collection of snowballs, which were plastered around his feet and legs, and hanging from his coat; made him look like a Pillsbury doughdog. he wasn't thrilled at having me melt his collection in a bowl of lukewarm water.....though that may have been because he didn;t want his feet in there. Either way, he was very glad when that bit was over! As indeed was I.

And that doesn't even count the three neighbors who borrowed one of our snow shovels. That shovel just kept getting swapped around. Amazing the number of people who own a house but no shovel.

Dana, that sounds awesome!

It really was Glatt! I am soooo fucking annoyed about the camera. I actualy took it with me in order to get pictures. That's part of the reason i went that particular route. I turned it on to take the first pic, and as I clicked the button it gave me a 'battery low' mesage and promptly died. Grrrrr. This was mid afternoon, so it was the last of the good light too. By the time it recharged at home, it was dark out.

If it snows again tomorrow, I might try again. If it doesn't then I can't risk that walk with Pilau. He'd break my neck if I attempted Upper Lane on compacted snow and ice.

Dana, batteries don't work well when cold. Was the camera cold? If it was, you might have tried tucking it inside you jacket for a few minutes so your body heat could warm it, this might have been enough to get a snap or two out of the battery.

Sounds really beautiful.

Glatt your kids look like they're having so much fun!

It's hard to believe photographs would be as good as the pictures you painted in your description.

You know the movie is never as good as the book.:headshake

We had 23 inches in Philly--woohoo!

A quiet night in the 'hood last night. We ventured out tonight, and only a few places were open. Very cozy all around.

Bring it! The kids (and the nephew) are getting these under the tree...

http://www.zipfy.com/videos/index.html

Zippyt Approves !!!

We're supposed to get snow tomorrow and the next day, so I guess ya'll back East may have snow for Christmas - sounds like you already have plenty. My town only removes snow from the main street and slicks down the rest, so that side streets are mostly sheer ice. I haven't chanced trying to walk to the grocery store for a week, but maybe tomorrow if we get enough snow covering the ice, I'll give it a try. No one here shovels their walks, either. This is Colorado, dammit! We're all inside watching the Broncos lose another game. :rolleyes:

kinda need you to win this week

Now that's just crazy talk. :eyebrow:

Princess is getting the red one from Santa! I'm thinking I might have to try it after a few eggnogs - it says it's good up to 250 lbs! Scary!

Drove to work on solid packed ice this morning - hopefully it'll be nice and slushy by the time I leave. (They didn't even plow Leetsdale or Parker Road SamIAm - effing Denver.)

effing Colorado. I am almost 400 miles from you at the western edge of the state and they don't seem to clear ANYTHING here or in between. I don't know why cities and towns here don't budget more for snow removal. Dude, its Colorado! Yes, there is going to be snow in the winter. Hello? :eyebrow: