Well it was a windy day with cold temps that didn't get out of the low 50's. A couple of times we thought the roof fell in with dead limbs from the big oaks surrounding the house. We watched all of the snow scenes on the Internet and made several phone calls to those in the midst of the big snow. The webcam suggested the height of the snow at the cabin was somewhere around a foot and half and the total for my home town of Winchester, Va was almost three feet. Yeow I can remember in '62 when we had 40 plus inches two weeks in a row and it took forever to get out or get in our road because of the drifts.
The day started here with the usual 6'ish roll out with heat running for most of the night. It ran most of the day as well as the wind was almost hurricane strength at times and it gusted like that until late evening when finally it started to lay down. We were out for a baby shower at a house on Lake Seminole and the full moon was awesome as it reflected off the lake water. They had an outside propane heater as well as a fire pit burning and the heat felt good . We were all bundled up with gloves, scarves, coats and sweaters which is not common for this area even in winter. The wind did keep any frost away from the gardens.
We didn't do anything outside at all during the day so we just read and lounged around watching for all the snow news up north. I finished the Lee Child book MAKE ME and while it was a good read it wasn't my favorite. We started the day off around 10'ish with a mountain breakfast after our morning routines, quiet times and daily discipline. We had buckwheat cakes with fresh blueberries in the batter along with some wild or feral hog sausage and cackle berries. I of course slathered my sausage with fresh ground horseradish and lots of molasses on my cakes. We did that to commemorate our mountain time at the cabin and our friends there. That held me until we had tacos prepared by our son Bobby at the baby shower on Lake Seminole around 6:30. We had black beans and rice, guacamole, pico deguyo, salsa and chips and cup cakes for dessert. I tasted everything but the dessert and the fixins' were delicious. The taco meat was pulled pork from the two hogs Danielle and Neal killed a month or so ago in northern Florida and had processed for the freezer.
The baby shower was for our friends and neighbors across the street, Melinda and John Perry who are the parents of Phoenix. They are expecting a girl Scarlet in the next couple of weeks. Melinda and Amy grew up together along with Danielle so we had many current neighbors as well as old neighbor, grandparents and friends. John is a fireman so lots of his friends were there as well as another retired LEO who was with the sheriffs dept. We stayed until nearly 9 o'clock then headed home with Amy. It was getting down right nippy outside as the temps were falling once again. We all had cold noses despite being bundled up.
Well after checking the news on the blizzard we hit the hot showers and did that ever feel great. It wasn't long afterwards it was past my bedtime at 11'ish so it was lights out for me. We did put the flannel sheets on the bed for the first time this winter and did that ever make a difference. Don't forget if you can get out from this snow to honor GOD by worshiping with others on this Sunday at a place of worship, LATER
