Still Snowed In!!!

Our friend is plowing us out and we asked that he come only after his priorities are done.  Many have to get their businesses open etc.  He did get here but the traffic was too heavy for him to start our drive.  A few photos from today.  Not much change. In fact, these are from our city, York.  They have a major issue in there is no place to go with it all.  It will have to be trucked out, which takes forever.  Here are some photos from our friends.

SNOW SNOW SNOW!!!!

I have to post this event!  It's history for sure.  Now officially the deepest snow in our area ever...we measured about 31 in. in the (undrifted) part of our yard.  The rest of it is over 3 feet for sure.
Here are some photos of our adventure.  Will do more when I can get out of the house further.
Kinda trapped right now.

 This was on Saturday, it was still snowing and it measured 21 in. at that point...notice cars in rear. The Santa hat was because he couldn't find any of his stocking hats.

 We have a convertible and Sam cleaned off the snow on the roof and window, but you'll see further down that it didn't last long.

 Our house looks so neat in the snow..notice the tracks in the driveway, today we can't walk in it. Too deep. That big bush is a holly and I have many birds in it, using the feeders hanging on the porch. We are enjoying our Bird TV.

This was Saturday when we could still see our neighbors..most of the day we couldn't see anything. Winds and the thickness of the snow caused a white out.

  Ok, it's Sunday now and this is what we woke up to.  I think it stopped about 9 pm last night, but it was blowing a lot.  We have two cars under there somewhere, but we can't walk in it to get over there to clean them off.  Hoping the roof holds up.

 I put the chairs backwards with pads and towels for the stray cats to use, but as you can see, they didn't survive the snow.  Not sure how it got in there...wind???  everything was covered.

 This is our front porch where the steps go down.  That drift was about 2 ft., on the porch. I did manage to get it pushed off to the side, and Sam dug out the steps.

 In the front yard it's past his knees.  In the back yard it's butt high.  Very hard to walk in it. Sam is 6' 4" tall, so that helps to see how deep it is.

 I managed to get down to the yard just to measure on my legs.  It seemed a lot deeper than it looked.  This filled my boots with snow, so I went inside.  Too old for this!!!

 This is the extent of our shoveling.  This took forever and killed us.  It was over 3 ft. deep there.  You can see it behind Sam.  That's not from thrown snow, it was that deep.

 One of the many beauties of this snow.  Our holly bush is covered with berries. Today there was a
cardinal sitting in it.  Where is my camera when I need it?

 This front porch snow was 2 ft. at least.  Didn't quite get my furniture put away.  Procrastination!!

 Chip donned his Eskimo coat to clean snow...hey Chip!!!

 Using his small blower, Chip worked on his front yard.  You can see some of the depth there.  Ours was about the same, but more drifting.  They had 5 ft. drifts in their back yard.

My D-in-law had her birthday yesterday. Chip dug out the grill so he could make her steaks.  How sweet!!!

So, that's a little bit of our fun in photos.  When I can get out a little, I'll have more. We're not to get
too much melting for a few days.  We are waiting for the plow to come and dig us out.  Until then, we are mainly trapped.  The road is really clear, but our long driveway isn't.  We're shoveling a little at a time to save our bad backs.  See you next Spring at this rate.  Both cats went out and sniffed and came right back in, fast!!!  They couldn't possibly walk in it.  More later...

I Took The Facebook Plunge!!!

I FINALLY GAVE IN....after being bugged, nagged, etc. for years I finally caved and went on
Facebook today.  I spent the entire day tracking down friends and ended with over 70 when I
just closed it out.  The main reason I did it was because I found several very special old friends
that I haven't heard of for over 40 years.  Most of them have responded and we have "caught up".
So much for being an individual and rebelling.  I'm sure I won't regret it!  Find me!

Message for Life and the New Year

Got this as my"Daily Verse" and it says so much.  Life is in God's hands and His time.  We move through life, thinking we have it in control, but find out that everything has a season.  Food for pondering and for medication and prayer.....

My Grandcat, Ez!!!

I just loved this photo my daughter posted, had to add it to my Blog....enjoy the lovely, Ez.....

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!!!

   I can be a typical old person and say "where did 2015 go" but I won't do it.  Most of it was spent
job hunting for Sam.  In fact, I could have conceived and delivered a baby in the time he's been out
of work.  We are hanging on by a thread, but we are hanging on by the Grace of God!!!  Promises
were made for two potential jobs "by the end of the year" and nothing has come of them.  Year end
budgets and all that fun stuff.  So, we continue to wait, and wait, and wait.  Not something I do well.

We had a really nice holiday with our family (what we have here) and friends. Christmas was spent with Chip and Erin and their girls, Meg and Libby.  We had a nice dinner and sharing time.  Sunday after Christmas, we spent with Sam's grand daughters and their foster families.  Hannah wasn't with us, but there were the foster siblings to fill up the house.  It was a nice time.  I find it harder each
year to make it to midnight on New Year's Eve.  This year, Sam's little band did our church service
party, so I had no choice but to stay awake.  It was nice being with new friends for the celebration.

Looking back on the year is always fun.  As a new one starts, it's only natural to ask, "what will it
bring?" but I'm trying not to think about it.  So many things happened last year, some of them good,
but most of them not so good, so I'm really not going to speculate on what's coming.  It's a bit too
frightening to do that.  I do know that I will be having my 50th class reunion in the summer.  That
is just mind-boggling.  I'm fortunate to keep in touch with a lot of my female classmates, so I look
forward to seeing the others that I haven't seen for 5 years.  Our biggest hope is a job for Sam, and
his home design business to flourish also.  We have decent health, in spite of the many annoying
things that come with old age.  Bodies rot, and mine is doing just that.  Part of the package, and most
would agree that old age isn't for sissies.  My mother would say that and I'd laugh at her.  Not laughing now Mom!!!

Our family is doing well. Our children are hard working, and are building successful businesses.
Grand daughters are growing up way too fast, but they are making us proud with all they do.  It is
exciting to watch them build lives and enjoy their gifts and talents.

Our fur kids are doing great.  Hoots cat is now 14 and is very thin, but he continues his daily walk
to the neighbor's house to mooch food, and he'll chase an occasional critter in the yard.  His gait is
slow, but he manages to continue to be "the head cat".  Our new guy, Remi is quite a sweetie.  He has
adopted Sam as his "human" and is very lovable.  He will be 2 in the spring so he's still a youngster.
Remi is getting very comfortable being a house cat, with his many daily walks into his domain, where he is quite the accomplished hunter.  These guys aren't close friends (Hoots decided that) but they do
well living together.

So, I wish you all the very best, and blessed New Year possible.  Thanks for joining me on my blog, and  I hope you will also e-mail me at annaurora5@gmail.com  anytime.  I'm not a facebook person, but I do enjoy my e-mail pals.  God bless you all....Anna