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Snow Day in Bel Nor
Sometimes the weather forecast is so accurate! Last night it started snowing about the time it got dark. We had a Winter Storm warning for 4-6 inches, followed by high winds, blowing and drifting snow, and dangerous wind chills starting tonight and lasting into Saturday. We got only about 3-4 inches here, but so far the wind and the chill are right on target!
About 9 a.m. after the main storm had passed, we had a brief, heavy snow shower and the wind blew it almost sideways. The bird feeders in the back yard were busy all day. I really wanted to capture the effect of the big, blowing snowflakes, even though the shower didn't last very long. The view from the front door toward a house across the street looks similarly frosty. Not long after I took this photo, Raymond and his friend Junior arrived, driving Vanna, our old minivan, to shovel our sidewalks and driveway. Our neighbor Barb had left earier this morning for the airport and called us later, saying, "don't go anywhere out of Bel Nor. It's too crazy out there." We decided to follow her advice. But at least now we can get out of the garage if we have to.
Inside, we have a riot of blooms right now--three poinsettias (two white, one red) and four amaryllis stalks each bearing three blooms. It has been so cold that we are keeping most of the curtains and blinds drawn day and night to stop heat escaping through our generous number of (supposedly thermal) windows...but I have to open the drapes each morning for the plants in the dining room to get some light. All of this living in the dark is beginning to give us cabin fever! Norm has taken up weaving on his lap loom again, after a hiatus of a few years. I have been working on knitting a prayer shawl. And of course we have Ava to play with and keep us warm until Sunday night when Barb returns from Atlanta. Not long after the snow shower, the sun came out and brightened the day for quite a while. Now it's cloudy again, the low tonight is supposed to be somewhere between 0 and 5 above with wind chills of 15 -20 below. (On my FaceBook page, friends are discussing the color of their thermal underwear! ) Tomorrow might be even worse: high of 13 and low around 0 again. I think I know where my long johns are--haven't had a winter this cold since 1999 but they are still in the bottom drawer of the dresser. At least we can look forward to a week from now: it will be close to 40 degrees! Now that's a forecast I fervently hope WILL be extremely accurate!
Sometimes the weather forecast is so accurate! Last night it started snowing about the time it got dark. We had a Winter Storm warning for 4-6 inches, followed by high winds, blowing and drifting snow, and dangerous wind chills starting tonight and lasting into Saturday. We got only about 3-4 inches here, but so far the wind and the chill are right on target! 
About 9 a.m. after the main storm had passed, we had a brief, heavy snow shower and the wind blew it almost sideways. The bird feeders in the back yard were busy all day. I really wanted to capture the effect of the big, blowing snowflakes, even though the shower didn't last very long. The view from the front door toward a house across the street looks similarly frosty. Not long after I took this photo, Raymond and his friend Junior arrived, driving Vanna, our old minivan, to shovel our sidewalks and driveway. Our neighbor Barb had left earier this morning for the airport and called us later, saying, "don't go anywhere out of Bel Nor. It's too crazy out there." We decided to follow her advice. But at least now we can get out of the garage if we have to.
Inside, we have a riot of blooms right now--three poinsettias (two white, one red) and four amaryllis stalks each bearing three blooms. It has been so cold that we are keeping most of the curtains and blinds drawn day and night to stop heat escaping through our generous number of (supposedly thermal) windows...but I have to open the drapes each morning for the plants in the dining room to get some light. All of this living in the dark is beginning to give us cabin fever! Norm has taken up weaving on his lap loom again, after a hiatus of a few years. I have been working on knitting a prayer shawl. And of course we have Ava to play with and keep us warm until Sunday night when Barb returns from Atlanta. Not long after the snow shower, the sun came out and brightened the day for quite a while. Now it's cloudy again, the low tonight is supposed to be somewhere between 0 and 5 above with wind chills of 15 -20 below. (On my FaceBook page, friends are discussing the color of their thermal underwear! ) Tomorrow might be even worse: high of 13 and low around 0 again. I think I know where my long johns are--haven't had a winter this cold since 1999 but they are still in the bottom drawer of the dresser. At least we can look forward to a week from now: it will be close to 40 degrees! Now that's a forecast I fervently hope WILL be extremely accurate!
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My sister and her husband sent us a pointsettia plant that is huge, like a small tree. It must have cost $100. This old house (106 years old), despite all our efforts is drafty, and the temps have been single digits a lot lately in Denver. Despite my having placed it away from the windows the pore thing's leaves all are limp and look like they are dying. It is a tropical plant and it doesn't take much cold to shock them. My housekeeper/cook is really mourning how bad the plant is looking and asking me if there is anything that can be done with tears in her eyes. I just say, it's a seasonal plant and doomed to die eventually. Although I have kept smaller ones alive for years.
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