Bike Parking

Funny that they would climb over this snowbank to park the bike, huh? Maybe even funnier that they're riding their bike around when there are snowbanks to park on. Maybe the California Girl in me just can't comprehend it and it's a perfectly normal thing to do, huh?

January Thaw Finally

We were out there in the freezing rain last night, pushing the snowblower and shoveling the walk, and absorbing the sleet falling on us. The snow was extremely heavy and hard to lift and the fresh snow bank was hard as stone from the rain crust upon it, but today was January Thaw Day and about time, too, since it's January 29th already!

More Snow Coming

My aged jack'o lantern is making the best icky face to represent the general feeling about tomorrow's snow to ice storm. They say it'll be a long drawn out storm from 3 am until midnight. At least there will be snow under the ice, that'll make it easier to clean up, but the icky face remains even though I'm glad to be having the day off.

Sit Stay

Makes you wonder who's boss, doesn't it? Actually, I always know who the head of household is. It's the one(s) that stay home warm and cozy on 12 degree days and send their people out to fetch them petfood. :-)

Hair?

Love the barber shop window advertising HAIR with every manequin bald as a que ball.

Moonrise

I guess this works for any season, except of course, I'm not likely to be standing around outside this time of year to take a picture of the moon rising over the ocean. Still, the moon does rise and the seagull crosses it's path and these things continue all year long even when nobody's out there with their camera to capture it.

Buried

These are pretty funny but the really strange ones are the nativities, sitting out in the open with the baby buried and Joseph & Mary kneeling, up to their shoulders in the snow, not even trying to uncover that poor baby.

No Golfing

Not that anybody would consider it under the circumstances, but it's still funny to see this statement hanging on the snow closed gateway.

NOT snowing

Late into the night my husband and I ran the snowblower and shoveled the walks, so we were not all that pleased to see 4 more inches fell overnight. I shoved the snowblower around for a couple more hours this morning and (thank God) my neighbor came out to finish it off with the shovel. We're waiting for the weather report now, so I've wandered off to California for a NO SNOW picture...

STAY

I saw this dog tied up at the senior housing complex and had to wonder just how he got himself in this predicament. Poor dog! I also wonder just how long he had been tied up like this. It seem it would be a bit of a strain on his neck, but he made me laugh anyway.

Cold Snap

Every winter we have a week of bitter cold and below zero temperatures and I'm glad to say that we are already in the middle of that. Already, because it's only the 15th of January, which makes me think that it's all uphill from here. It may be a long and winding UP-hill, but it is, most likely, up. I suppose that Mother Nature and or the weatherpeople COULD change the rules this year and we have more than one bitter cold week, but I certainly do hope not!

California Winter

Here we are at the beginning of our week of bitter cold weather when the ground is covered with snow and the nighttime temps are minus this and minus that and it makes me think of what we used to call winter in California. Oh, there would be the rain which would cause mud slides wherever last year's fires had been, but, I think fondly of it now, at least for this week. After the hard week of winter, things will start to warm up and the ups and downs will keep leading in an upward direction until it's springtime again.

My Chair

We got these girls when they were 5 weeks old and bottle fed them for a little while. It's hard to believe, now, that they each fit in the palm of a hand. I've seen their mother feeding with the homeless cats, so I've joined the group of feeders. When I told this one, Her Royal Highness, that she's spoiled rotten, laying around on her heating pad all day long, she said I was wrong, but last time I fed her momma, I told her that her babies were strong and healthy and running our lives. Being ferrel, she told me to "Go Away" I did.

Penguin Joke

I love that they're all laughing, up to their noses in snowfall, but keeping their chins up. They made fun of my can of snow and enjoyed the joke.

It wasn't so bad

Maybe it was a little hard on inflatable snowpeople, but there was only 5 inches this storm and the light and fluffy factor was greatly appreciated. The temperatures are about to plummet, though and I actually closed my bedroom window. It will be 37 and sloppy on Tuesday, but then it's going into minus this and minus that with single digits for the highs. The snow people should be delighted!

Snow Predicted

They're telling us 6-9 inches tonight. The prediction is for light fluffy stuff and after last week's "wintry mix" ice mess, light, fluffy stuff sounds absolutely lovely to me. Church is cancelled, of course, but how nice to have all of Sunday to clean up before Monday's back-to-work commute. Let is snow!

More Snow

Here comes another storm - on the weekend this time, Saturday night, possibly interferring with church on Sunday, sigh. This one is expected to be light and fluffy and after the "wintry mix" mess that left us coated 2 inches thick with ice the other day, we're all looking forward to light and fluffy. Thank You God!

Madonna In Ice

Today, everything is ice. It's started to rain, but since it's 31 degrees, that's not too hopeful. We're not likely to find something as surprising or wonderful in this storm's aftermath, as this lovely Madonna that I discovered in the melt-off a couple years back. Happy New Year from the Madonna and me, Donna.