At 3:18 this morning I woke up to a strange noise. I couldn’t figure it out at first. Was it the wind kicking back up? As the sound grew closer I realized what I was hearing. The snow plow. The scraping of the blade on the road combined with the clank of the chained-up tires was a sound I was not familiar with. Yet.

The Nasty Nor’easter was nice enough to pass by further out in the ocean so that we were not greatly impacted. We got about four inches of sticky, heavy wet snow and some wind, but the wind was not terrible. The worst part of the storm was, of course, during Rick’s commute home. It took him 1.45 hours. Many roads are still closed from Sandy, and if they are open some don’t have power and the traffic lights are not working. Loads of fun!

The lights flickered on and off a couple of times and I thought oh no, here we go, but we did not lose power. whew. So many people are still without power. My mailman, Dennis, is still without power but he has a generator. The Fed-Ex guy (who is sweet enough to always put our wine delivery inside the house for me) is still out of power down by Wayne and is living with his parents for the duration. So. Many. People. I’m not sure how we got lucky enough to get our restored so quickly. I am thankful for that every day.

I hate to waste the gas so I haven’t really been anywhere in a week except for just locally to the grocery, the library (which at the time could not check in or out books while their system was down) and the feed store. I really need to go down to Wayne but I think I will give it until Monday before I venture out into the great unknown since Rick is still having difficulties getting to and from work. When I do finally go down I will make it as efficient a trip as I possibly can given the gas situation.

And that’s about all I have for you today!

Bella enjoying the snow.

I’m so glad you didn’t lose power again! And I LOVE the snow!! Wow, the plow was pretty prompt, considering all NJ has had to deal with.

I pronounce Bella, the Snow Queen! I would be out there rolling around with her (or not.)

Also the pic of those darling mini-adirondack chairs is so pretty.

Bigsis, me too! You might LOVE the snow but we didn’t particularly, but at least we did not have to clear it off the deck, etc., since it mostly melted today.

I would like to see you rolling around with Bella in the snow! She would not play fair I have to tell you in advance.

Snow at this time of year! How strange! It seems so early!

I’m glad you didn’t get heavily slammed.

Steve, yes it is a bit early. But remember that freak snowstorm we had last year on Halloween! We’re glad we didn’t get slammed too. Very glad.

Lovely pics - especially Bella enjoying the sonw - too early for the white stuff though!

Joyce, I know, it’s too early! Bella loves her snow!