Blizzard

We had a pretty low key weekend. Both of us are dealing with colds and so we took it easy. My friend Sarah and I took our dogs up to Hawk's Ridge Sat. afternoon so that they could romp around. Everyone was pretty tuckered out by the end. Today we woke up to the sound of crashing noises. Every time we heard the crash, the whole house shook. So we went downstairs and found this:






Our storm door on the back of the house kept getting caught in the blustery winds and slamming in to the railing. Once we realized there was no hope in getting the door to latch, we had to take the door off. So, I'm standing in the back porch in my PJ's and slippers unscrewing the door with a screwdriver. I had gone to the basement to get the cordless drill only to find the battery was low! Grr... why does this always happen this way?! We got the door off finally and proceeded to scoop up all the snow that had blown in the back porch. I forgot to mention that all the while this is happening, Annabelle is whistling/whining on the other side of the kitchen door. It was a test of our patience! Back to the story...
So, just as I was getting all the snow scooped up and puddles wiped up, I noticed that snow was now blowing in underneath the wooden door. The weather stripping had been trimmed on one end to allow the door to open and now that we don't have a storm door, we had a huge gap where cold air and snow was blowing in! So, we went to the basement to cut a new piece of weather stripping and brought it back to the porch only to find that the weather stripping we had just cut is not wide enough to cover the gap! By now, the wind had picked up and we had received another inch of snow. So, I called our local Ace Hardware store only to find out that they are closed on Sunday! At this point, we decided to give up and just roll a towel up to cover the gap until tomorrow...

So, we spent the rest of the day just lounging around. Mikey's work closed at 1pm so he didn't have to go in. We're both still feeling pretty crummy due to our colds. Here's what our front porch looked like as of 3pm:

And here's the view out of the back porch:

We didn't venture out anywhere past the porches today.

Thanks to everyone who sent birthday card and email wishes to me. I had to post a picture of a cool bag that my friend Sarah made me. Sorry the photo is a little weird (I'm learning to use Mikey's camera).

Happy Winter!

~Manda