Oh. My. Goodness. It’s been snowing since I got up this morning. We have about 5-6 inches already on the ground and they are saying the main part of the storm is just gearing up now. I just may get my wish about being snowed in. The snow is falling fast and furious out there, but so far no wind.

I made a pork chile verde this morning and it’s bubbling away in the crock pot. I just now started the wood stove up after splitting some wood. We’ve got the lanterns all ready to go, the butane and Coleman propane stoves located, and water in large containers just in case we lose power.

I guess we’re ready for whatever Mother Nature is going to throw at us. Bring it on!

What a silly word, yet that is the term they are using for our storm tomorrow. We shall see. Chopped was very cool today. Photos to come. Our weather still remains to be seen.

These were taken in the thick of things yesterday. The snow was just beautiful and we were glad to be safe, snug, and warm inside. The snow wrapped up around 8:00 p.m. or so, but the winds kicked up in the middle of the night and did some drifting. Not too bad though. The front steps were buried! My dream of being snowed in didn’t quite come true, but it was a good snow so I am not complaining!

This morning dawned bright and beautiful. Rick cleared the snow that had fallen since he cleared the drive just before dark last night and I shoveled the steps and behind the gate in case it doesn’t melt before we have a fuel oil delivery. I learned the hard way the first year we lived here and the fuel oil delivery man had to scramble over our fence with his hose because the snow behind the gate was frozen solid!

I took just a few photos of it piled up on some of the railings around the yard before the sun started to melt it away.

Believe it or not, I put on my boots and went down into the yard with my camera hoping to get some fun dog photos but I could not entice the dogs down into the yard! Only Bella came and she got bored with me pretty quickly. Lazy mutts.

hey mom ... look

it’s finally snowing

and pretty good too!

Husband home. A fire in the wood stove. Snow falling heavily outside. Life is good even if we didn’t get to carry out our plans to see the filming of CHOPPED. Hopefully we can reschedule for another day.

Thank you, weather gods!

About the weather forecast, I mean. The weatherman is crying wolf again. Or is he? Honestly, this is getting a bit old. They are using the “B” word for our weather tonight and tomorrow. Up to 11 inches of snow possible for us. Sure, sure. As if I believe them! Show me the snow; go ahead, I dare you.

How unfair though. Tomorrow was our day to go in to the city to watch CHOPPED being filmed. Doesn’t it just figure that we wait so long to get a really good storm and it has to do it on the one day we have something important planned? We can reschedule for another day, but still.

So we wait. But, I’m telling you—I won’t believe it until I see it.