Oops! It snowed!

We listened with skepticism to the forecast of mega-snowfall. How many times have these predictions yielded little or no snow?? I had consulted John Dee's site and said "Oh, sure.....". I now need to report that I was wrong!!


did you notice the snow on the grill above??? It was bare before the snow started on Friday night. There must have been 8-10" of snow when I went out to plow the driveway at 9:30 Saturday morning, and it was still snowing quite strongly. I went out again at 4:00P.M. to go over it again and there were 2-3" of fresh snow on the road.


We had hauled a defunct clothes dryer out of the basement, and the old dishwasher from the kitchen, and Friday I decided to load them into my truck in anticipation of giving Rueben's a Christmas present. At least they are somewhat concealed now....


And, of course, along with the plowing comes the treat of raking the snow off the roof so it doesn't melt up above and then freeze at the eves, causing water baking up under the shingles. The degree to which this happens is inversely proportional to the amount of insulation in the roof.....


Here are a couple of views of the dining room, all ready for the Sunday dinner when we would have our mini-Christmas eve eve dinner and gift exchange with kids and Peg's mom.



As it turned out, the snow was deep and widespread and Chris and Ashlee and Hailee were unable to make it up here at all, and Rose and Bryn showed up about 1:00 Monday afternoon, and we all headed to Donna'a house at 3:30, but that's another story.....


I know this is a poor image, but I just had to take this picture of the game on Sunday. It illustrates so well the usual position and condition of the packers, 3rd and long somewhere near the Bear's goal line... but weren't the Bears just great?? Yeah, Go Bears!!!


Sunday afternoon I made two pie crusts in preparation for the events to come. One would be for our get-together at home, one would be for transport to Donna's on Monday.


Here are all the necessary ingredients for the now famous Carlo's Pumpkin Chiffon Pie. And yes, the wine is a necessary ingredient, just not part of the pie....


Cook it all up, fill the shells, lick the rubber scraper and you're done! By the time I thought about taking a picture of the final product, one was gone and the other looked like this.....
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Happy Holidays, one and all!