We might get snow!

The forecast is calling for a
90 percent chance of snow today!

So far this year we have been just north
or south of every major snow storm.

I'll be running to the dairy
this morning to get milk.

Just in case!

Thankfully Mom is home safely!
I appreciated all of your kind
comments about her accident.

I guess getting out of State College
wasn't good.
They still had many icy patches
on the roads yesterday.

On a different subject...if you get a chance
click on this link to Judy's Post - The Letter.

Loving history and family as I do
this post struck such a chord with me.
I hope you like it too and let Judy know.

China Painting:

I am hoping to pull out my paints
and a plate or two and do some
artsy expression later today...
when school is finished and the
kids are out in the snow.

If I do anything worthwhile I will
show you tomorrow.
I won a ribbon at the fair for a
piece I painted two years ago and while
there probably weren't that many other
painted pieces it makes me wonder what
I am capable of creating.

I spent some time looking at Etsy last
evening and was wondering if
I might like doing
something with that.
We will see...

If you are snowed in or bored and
looking for more to read...ha...
I have been posting at my other blog.

Mrs. Rabe and I have been slow to get this
one really going but I think there are
some things there that are worthwhile.

Yesterday, Jonathan cracked me up with his
Poe-ish Poem about The Birds.
We had quite an infestation of starlings that
kept distracting from our schoolwork.
They, in fact, became Jonathan's schoolwork.

Have a good one!

Do You Hear What I Hear?

It's the first of December
and the weatherman says
to get out our shovels
and cover our heads...
Snow will be falling
and then cometh ice!
Get ready for winter
it will not be nice.

Run! Purchase those sleds
for your sweet little ones.
Get the runners waxed up.
Get mittens and scarves
and sweet little snowsuits
to keep them so warm
until in for the chocolate
they surely will come.

Get out and purchase
that milk and the bread
for many will be there
to get thiers ahead.
The shelves will get empty
and then there will be
no hint of the ice,
wintery bluster or snow!

Ok, so poet I am not but we are about to get our first
winter storm here in PA. The kids are kind of excited. They
are picturing friends in our yard, snowballs and forts.

I know someday when the kids are grown and gone the
lack of dirty messed up snow in the yard will probably make
me lonely but right now I just yearn for white, untouched snow.
Do you know what I mean? Like no one has been there and all is
smooth and pristine.
The irony is that most of my readers who comment are not in
a snowy part of the country. Do you miss it? Is that why you live there?
What is the scoop?
If you live in snow country, why? Is it because you love it?
Always lived there?
This inquiring mind wants to know....
what are your thoughts...
about snow?