Cliche DAY!!!!!!!

It's a frickin' snow day week!

From torrential downpours, boil water advisories (on the Mainland, not here thank goodness), major flooding and wind, power outages and ephemeral net services last week, we have gone to -9 to -16 degrees (that's Celsius to you foreigners), whiteouts, wind and, power outages and ephemeral net services and  a foot of snow!!!!! I'm currently doing this in Wordpad to transfer over----our power, phone and cable service are intermittent and we are keeping thermoses full and hot water simmering, candles handy and thick socks and slippers, sweaters and fleecy robes on various and sundry body parts. We had to go out on Sun for prescription refills---HA---nothing was open and when we got home, no power-----since Coffee is the Elixir of Life around here, that means that keeping the IV's flowing is Essential. We will gladly eat cold sammidges, but had to pull out out the handy dandy blow torch to heat the kettle for Coffee! Fortunately, no eyebrows were set on  fire, but the bottom of the kettle is warped a little.....

I had wanted to take a picture of our neighbour's apple tree last week during all the wetness. There were still five arboreal hero apples clinging to its branches ; yesterday i managed to get a shot of it with all the whiteness----there are only three left hanging on, two having decided to sacrifice themselves to passing deer, though only one was brave enough to chatter its teeth at me :}

Can you see that red in the middle of this?????

It's SO frickin' cold here that when i opened the door to get this shot, a bird flew in! I didn't see it, just Mo flyin hell bent for leather over my studio table, through my hibiscus tree and smack into the wall. Cats! Thought he was having a fit about the wind and snow blowing in; then i saw the feathers......the poor bird had smucked into the window by my sewing machine---Greyman tried valiantly to do something to help it but we realized a broken neck had resulted..........

And the cats hate it, not that they are outside cats. They just *thought* they wanted out.....

 

Snow....Christmas...Snow =Christmas...Christmas presents get harder to do every year. Everyone is  older and has everything. Even my Yuppie Son is difficult to buy for! Art will be the solution this year. Since i live so far from my family, they don't see the day to day activity that goes on in the studio, so this year i am gifting a bit of me this way for/to them. And with power outages at the moment, i can still do handwork :}


OOOOOOOOOOOOO ClothPaperScissors and QuiltingArts are both going to published 6 times a year now, instead of the 4 we all wait with bated breath for!!! Whoo hoo!!!

Update on Tue, November 28, 2006 at 01:47PM by arlee