That's our backyard snow total. Officially, I guess West Milford got the highest snow total in NJ: 13.2 inches. But I could only see exactly 12 inches no matter where I put the tape measure. Still, 12 inches is nothing to sneeze at.

We spent our morning clearing snow from the enormous driveway that we have, all the steps (front and deck steps that lead to the back yard) and the poor truck that has to sit outside without benefit of being in the garage. We're now in for the rest of the day. Whew.

We did not lose power. Of course not. We spent all that money to have the generator wired in to the household circuitry, so why would we? In fact, we got very little of the wind that they predicted. Go figure.

I don't think Nemo was quite as nasty a storm as predicted, but I guess after Sandy they weren't taking any chances. Other locations such as Connecticut, Massachusetts, and friend Carolyn in Rhode Island got pretty much buried. Plus they got the wind as well.

Now that all the work is done it's a very pretty day out there! Except for the gusty wind, that is (which we did not have yesterday).

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Poolside Pleasure

Go, Johnny, Go!

Wow! This is almost like winter was when we were kids. It would snow in feet, not inches!! Love the snow atop your poolside table. Ha! Quite different from this summer:).  Of course, I am jealous.  We had a nasty, windy rainy day in the 30-low 40’s day before yesterday and a bit overnight, but today turned out to be 50 degrees and eventually sunny. I’m not ready for spring yet.

You are lucky to have Johnny!!!

I’m not sure how much we got.  I went out last night at about 7 and did the walk and driveway…was thrilled the snowblower started!!!  Then, I saw someone post on FB in Toms River they were getting hit and it was 9 PM.  I was ticked when I looked out and saw Nemo was back with a vengence.  Out again at 7:30 AM for a do-over and then to my mom’s to take care of her walks.  Enough with the exercise!  So nice to be in with a glass of wine!  Enjoy the rest of the weekend!  Cool photos!!!

That’s a pretty impressive amount of snow, even if you didn’t get hit by the worst of the storm! I think that might be more than I ever saw from a single event when I lived in NJ—even Snowmaggeddon and the Snowpocalypse.

Bigsis, without Johnny we would be exhausted. I can’t imagine pushing a snowblower up and down this driveway!

Helene, such a big difference between central Jersey where you are and up here “in the mountains”. I really didn’t think we would get as much as we did since it was pretty much a coastal storm. I’m with you regarding both the exercise and the glass of wine!

Steve, it was pretty impressive since it came in one fell swoop but we’ve had a bigger snow since we’ve been here. One year we had to let the dogs out from the basement because we couldn’t open the sliding glass doors! I’ll post a pic!