First Snow
Well I picked a strange day to get my nails done. Even taking the dog to Pooches it was obvious that the weather wanted to sleet/snow/wintry mix. But husband was ready for a haircut and I really wanted to get my nails redone before I started picking at the edges and making a mess of them and the nail place is around the corner from the hair place.
No one else there as the woman opened the door for me. So immediate seating and as I know she doesn’t get paid unless someone comes in, I am glad I went.
Changed out my Halloween orange nails for slightly sparkly deep wine red. Gosh they look so pretty when they are done. This is a pleasure I started very late in life…like last year when my dil gifted me a nail spa treatment for Christmas.
So back to the weather, the temperature must have dropped about forty degrees from last night. The black gum trees in the front yard were still yellow-green yesterday. Today they are yellow tinged with orange. We’ll see what they look like tomorrow. Temperature is at 31oF. Just at freezing and it is trying.
The cat is unhappy as she wants to go out but finds it isn’t very nice outside. Maybe out the back door will be different from the front. Nope!
I brought in some wood to burn. Pull a chicken carcass left from a previous dinner out of the freezer. I sauteed carrots, celery and onion and put the carcass on top to finish thawing and put in several cups of chicken broth. It is now on low.
Meanwhile as I hunted for the chicken I found a bag of scones I had frozen as the recipe makes too many for me to eat and I obviously didn’t take the extras to the neighbors on that bake. So I am enjoying a glass of iced tea and a couple of scones. I’ll light a fire in a little while and sit and knit on socks.
Hubby announced the temperature just dropped to 30oF. You’ve got to love those remote thermometers. Don’t even have to get up from the desk to read it, let alone go outside.
Meanwhile the cat is trying to amuse herself as she has now tried the front and back doors and darn the weather is the same at both. Nothing like a bored cat to start tearing around the house. “Change of plans,” she says, “I’ll just sit on your desk and watch the cursor move around your computer screen.”
And if you don’t have snow and would like some ‘virtual’ snow, try this site. You ‘cut’ your own and they add it to the ones cut by other people worldwide. It is incredibly fun. Make your own blizzard.
I can’t figure out how to download my snowflake, so I’ll leave you with a photo of a real one. (not my photo)
