SNOW!! Plus a bit of stitching.

This weekend, mostly Sunday we had SNOW! Final total here 10.5 inches plus snow drifts in places 16 to 24 inches. The snow was up to Miss Maddie's chest in places which made it tricky for her to do her business, but she managed!

 This is early on in the storm, right now all this area is covered by snow with some 16 inch drifts!

This our our back door this am. You can see where I trampled the snow to get the snow measurements and how much it drifted by the patio furniture.

Those deep areas near the bottom of the photo are the 16 in snow drifts Maddie and I had to get through to do our business, which of course she decided to do in one of the deeper areas of the yard! I had to find an area without drifts to do my measuring, but I need taller boots!!!

I planned ahead and did my grocery shopping on Saturday which left Sunday free to "play" in my studio, get some miscellaneous stuff done around the house, bake, and of course STITCH!!! 

Here is a little bit of what I worked on.

The cross stitch is a Lizzie Kate Snippet called "Hop Squared" copyright 2008 that I picked up this past Saturday on one of my "get it done before is snows" stops. I also stopped at JoAnn Fabrics, Hobbly Lobby and the grocery store....you see my priorities here!

This needlepoint is what I planned to work on, but did not. It is a freebie from the DMC-USA website that my night ANG group is doing as our February Chapter Project. We started it in February and will get ideas on finishing it at our March program. It calls for Satin Floss and Memory Thread, but I am using regular floss and the Memory Thread, I did not feel like messing with the slippery satin stuff!

I decided not to drive into work today on the slippery roads. The boss let me take annual leave, so we will see what trouble I can get in around the house today!!

Friday Fortune Cookie and SNOW Update

Friday is date night and we usually go for Chinese. Here is my Friday Fortune Cookie:

"Old age is always 20 years older than you are."

SNOW update - all gone! 

We will get our first hard freeze this weekend and then the temps will rebound into the 60s! Poor confused plants.

It may snow here a bit early, but it does not last until next April like some places! And the sunny winter days - sweet!

Have a GREAT weekend everyone.

SNOW!!

The first obligatory snow covered patio furniture picture for the season!

2 inches taken at 6:30 am

 

Roads were ok -  just a bit wet and splashy, but grassy and elevated surfaces collected the snow that fell for about 2 hours in the wee hours of the morn.

Snow & Telework Day

Well it snowed overnight and is still coming down. Lucky for me I can telework and stay safe and sound inside. I took this photo at 6:40 am today when I let Miss Maddie out.

It looks to be at least 12 inches on the table. Despite this being my 5th December here, I do not have any high snow boots, so I could not run out and get a real measure. So I used the unofficial measure of  how far up the snow is on the dog! It was up to her elbows and that is about 10 inches. Must be more by now!

So it looks like this is a year when we will have a white Christmas. Believe it or not we do not always have a white Christmas. According to the weather folks and 110 years of data we have snow falling on Christmas about 15 % of the time and snow (1 inch or more) on the ground 3 out of 10 years. So if you want a white Christmas this is the year in Denver!!

I posted this photo with info on the local news network's facebook page and they aired it! With my name and what I said about snow up to the dogs elbow! Wow.

Well break time is over, gotta get back to work.

Snow is almost gone

I thought I would show you that the snow really does go away. Here is the picture out my studio window taken on Thursday followed by a picture out the same window taken yesterday.

Nov. 2, 2011

Nov. 5, 2011

Happy Sunday!

SNOW....agian.

November kicked off here in the Denver Metro with a snow storm yesterday. Here is the view out my studio window. We go about 6 inches and it was not as wet as last week. But the roads were cooler and it has been slicker and there have been LOTS of accidents and some school closures. I am lucky and can telework so I am safe at home. One 15 minute section of my commute was reported as being 1 hr and 15 minutes! November is our second snowiest month so here we go!

View out my studio window yesterday.

Our first snow!

As of about 7:00 am we had 6 inches of wet snow (see tip of 6" ruler here). Still snowing quite well now at 9:00 am.

Now I give you a view out my Studio window (which is now on an upper floor).

That is about all for now!!

SNOW!!!!!!

Tuesday morning November 9, 2010:

Yes (for any of you who enlarge the picture) those are pumpkins and Christmas lights. We got a very good discount if the lights were installed early (they have been up-but not turned on-since mid October).

Same time of day Wednesday November10:

Do you think it snowed last night? What a difference a day makes. More on the way tomorrow and maybe a bit more this weekend. Well, November is the second snowiest month here (followed by March). It was a wet snow--see how it sticks to the limbs of the trees (and weighs down the bushes)? All those white trees all over town make a very pretty scene.