Showing posts with label Snow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Snow. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

There it goes!



The snow is melting almost as fast as it dumps on us, which is ok here! Otherwise we have ice on ice. Now the temperature is warming up - 45 is warm right? 

Here's Liz stuck on the driveway in a snow storm - yesterday!


Bob's tractor got a workout last night!
This probably looks familiar to Mom!
This too! From yesterday.

Today, just before the big melting 'heatwave'!








Our cozy fireplace saw some action!


I have been sewing a little this week. I almost have the 'Hope' block done. And I found a good small teapot design for Mom's Anniversaries of the Heart block, but I'll change the colors!


I keep trying to rotate this, but it keeps popping back, so upside down it is!

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And It Snowed Again!



 Let's see how long this lasts!


 






This is getting boring! 

Last week Liz got her own first car: a Subaru CrossTrek. Great for our snowy winters. Liz loves her job at the P.D. - 
and her new car.




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Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening





Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

The little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely and dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
And miles to go before I sleep.

Robert Frost

I love this Poem. Such a good picture! I have been using the same poetry book, a reprint from 1957, popular with homeschoolers titled,  Favorite Poems Old and New, Selected for Boys and girls by Helen Ferris.


Poetry is a great imagination builder, and really fun to read with young children.  This anthology at around 600 pages, and full of classic poems from all over the world, is kind of expensive, but it's proven to be worth it! Most of this blog's poems come from this book.

xox

How Cold Is It?

It's freezing ice cold! Very dry and single digits.



We're making tea to warm up and trying to stay healthy!


Inside!


Downstairs where the  heater is!


More downstairs....


The front yard through the window downstairs.


Icicles in the patio through the mud room window - I am not braving the weather by going outside!



There's always Hope! Little Flock Sheep and Virtues block I'm working on.


Curtains - almost done - I made for my sewing room downstairs.

Awake, O, north wind;
And come, thou south;
Blow upon my garden.
-Bible quote


Yesterday's snow on the birdhouse through our bedroom window.

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Monday, January 13, 2014

Monday, October 28, 2013

Snow!


Waking up to this, and a lot of frozen coldness, fills us with excitement tinged with dread this early in the season. We could still have some warm days before our real snow begins the last week of December. In the meantime, just in case we don't have warm days, we had better hurry and finish our winter preparations.



This used to be my garden, obviously it's gone - to be replaced with a lawn in Spring. I already went through the 'pain of separation' this past summer. It was hard 'parting', but my gardening days are over!




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