snowmen @ my parents’ house
it’s snowing again.
we got six inches of the white stuff yesterday. another inch over night.
my family stayed at my parents rather than risking roads that were a mess. they’re clear today, but
it’s snowing again.
just when i thought Spring was here.
let’s think warm thoughts today. what do you look forward to in Spring?
don’t tell my wife, but i actually look forward to mowing the grass. it is like a meditation for me, working in ever diminishing circles around the yard.
i look forward to color & t-shirts.
ice cream at the roadside stand. mmmm.
anyone going anywhere on Spring break?
mine is next week. i will be working on grad school papers & hanging out with my youngest son. my oldest son is going on an extended field trip with my mom to historic places around the state. she does it with each grandchild when they turn ten.
maybe if we all write about Spring tomorrow it will really happen.
ha.
just a thought.
only i wrote about snow for mine already.
so, what do you look forward to in Spring?
even if it is not spring where you are, what do you look forward to?
it’s snowing, still.
SPLAT. (sorry, don’t know who threw that snowball)
see you right back here tomorrow, for OLN. Until then, ~Brian
dVerse 
i think the yellow rake hair on that one snowman
was a swipe at my hair….hmmm….
welcome everyone….something warm to drink?
and be careful of claudia today
she’s pretty vicious with a snowball.
smiles.
thank you for having us… open mic rocks.. and so do the snow men….snowing here too in Philadelphia.
nice…been a while since i was in Phillie…when they were younger we brought the boys up to see some history and then went to Sesame Place to visit Sesame Street…
think it was around the time Ben Franklin married Betsy Ross…(not history, for those unfamiliar—the character actors got married)
ha…smiles
That’s so sweet of your mother to do that for her grandkids, Brian. I hope to do something like that one day, too.
it is cool…they are going to richmond, then jamestown and williamsburg…Logan thinks it is cool cause it is just him and gramma…and they get to stay in a hotel…and he gets doted upon…smiles.
We had our spring break a few weeks ago. My sister and niece flew in for a surprise visit (a surprise for my children) and although we didn’t travel far we got to see some cool things in the area. My oldest was a late attender because she had a music workshop in Virginia, she did bring me back a very cool Poe Postcard though.
I’m looking forward to sandals and skirts. The spring colors here are some of the best I’ve seen, and I look forward to blooming dogwood and red bud trees, the Dogwood Arts Festival, the Farmer’s Market is returning and the Lavender Festival.
I do hope the frost doesn’t steal the courage of the blooms and this spring will be a vibrant one. Until then, I’ll take some Hot Chocolate 😉
very cool…what part of VA was she in?
and cool on the surprise by your sister and niece…
sandals….i hear you…in summer i am all about sandals…finally found a decent pair again….had a pair of leather ones that i literally wore out, off my feet and went a few years before finding another painr….
oo dogwoods as well…those and cherry blossoms…
hot chocolate coming up…
Thanks Brian… she was in Richmond at Virginia Commonwealth University. She said the houses there are some of the most beautiful she had seen.
I recommend Teva, Keen or Chaco sandals, they’re great for hiking I’ve been all over the Smoky and Rocky Mountains in them. Keen is my personal favorite. If you dare wear them to work you might be mistaken for a West Coast Hippie, but don’t quote me on that. Thanks for the Hot Chocolate, cheers!
will def be looking into those….had a pair of teva a while back…the ones i had that were my favs were all leather…none of this suede they use now…
richmond is just up the road from me as well…2.5 hours…my brother lives there…
I’ve never been… but I hear it’s lovely. We live in East Tennessee, so it’s not all that far, maybe 8 hours? We thought about driving up for the performance but my niece doesn’t do well in the car, she’s 7 months old.
are you anywhere near bristol? that is where my wife is from, but on the VA side…
oh wow…lavender festival sounds awesome…
I wasn’t going to mention the yellow rake hair 😀
Wonderful thoughts, Brian. I had a taste of spring when mornings were mild enough for me to enjoy coffee outside with daydreams of gardening, watching the small blooms form on the maple tree. Then, out of the blue yonder, snow covered all of the tender beginnings. I think I’m most looking forward to dirt under my nails and brilliant blooms.
See you tomorrow night 🙂
nice….we have an enclosed deck on the back of the house and like to stand out there and drink the coffee and watch the world wake up….
there is def something about getting dirt on your hands as well…and creating new life…
see you then…
oh i hope the snow and frost doesn’t harm the tender buds… last week i saw that a farmer literally iced the fruit trees to protect them from the frost..? i dunno…but it looked beautiful…as if the trees are wearing wedding gowns…took a pic..
That’s a gorgeous pic!
wow what an interesting technique…never heard of it…when we lived in florida they used to blanket the fruit trees when the temp got low…
really cool pic…
my feet and knees were muddy and wet afterwards…ha…smiles
That’s a lovely picture Claudia ~ Here the trees are still covered in burlap ~
Brilliant blooms… me too! And the scents, hyacinth, jasmine, lavender… yes please.
ok…what i’m looking forward to most of all in spring is when the cherry trees start blossoming….really i get high at the sight of this…we have a big field full of cherry trees right behind our house and sometimes i just stand there…. and watch…and sigh…smiles
oh i just said that above….i love cherry blossom rain…and the smell….ahh…..
SPLAT
SPLAT– SPLAT– ha…smiles
ha. if we are not careful we might start a full on pub snowball fight…
ha. that would be great fun
I love cherry tree blossoms, too. We’ve already had blooms. In fact, our azaleas are almost finished blooming. We got the cold blast, too. Now everything’s going to be confused… like me. Ha! We’ll have a week or two of spring-like temps and then the TX heat will set in… but I’m ready. Let’s all think spring, a great idea.
yep we have buds on the trees and some flowers…their little heads are trying to poke through the snow…really hope everything does not get confused but…texas heat is no joke…
Yeah, in August it’s like walking in an oven… and to think I had two babies in Aug and one in June!
oh my….we were in florida when we had Logan…he was an early october baby so all through the summer here as well….
oh heck…. i had one in august too…but our august can’t be compared with a texas august… i suffer in big heat…so rather sweden than texas in summer for me…smiles
I agree, cherry blossoms… and making jam. Perfect spring thoughts.
What do I look forward to in spring? It’s NOT behaving like winter, for starters. 🙂 Here in NYC it’s supposed to snow today and it’s really brutally cold out.
Here’s what a I wrote a few days ago on this very topic:
Spring? You’re Kidding, Right? (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Spring is legally set to begin,
Which in light of the weather’s a sin:
Last night we had snow,
Sleet, and ice here and so
There’s a seasonal mix-up herein.
and they say there is no such thing as global warming, right? ha.
yeah, this one surprised us a bit…they said maybe an inch yesterday and we got clobbered a bit…they did not prepare for what we got…i guess spring will get here when she does…
Love it!
smiles…there’s nothing you can’t put into a limerick… we have crazy weather over here as well…it’s freezing cold..
Thanks so much everyone. Let’s hope the real spring shows up soon and removes this imposter!
Thankfully, we didn’t have snow, that was last week ~ But the ice is melting away, though its a bit chilly to take a walk ~ At least we are now above O ~
yep a bit chilly here as well…ha, above 0 is a good place to be…smiles.
Spring?? Pfffffft. No sign of it at all here. Possibly the coldest March in 50 yrs. Bad storms have left people without power now for 4 days, snow drifts are 20 feet deep in some areas and theres no sign of any let up yet.
Thankfully, my area has got off lightly so far. Its a biting easterly wind though and that cuts you in half as its straight from Siberia.
So please, someone post something to warm me up 😉
I’m about 100 miles north of you, Tino, and it’s Baltic here. No snow though; we’ve been lucky so far.
20 feet deep…oh my goodness….we have not had that kind of snow since i was a kid….remember getting like 5 feet or something in a blizzard…was the week after i met my wife…we were on spring break then as well…that was 20 years ago…
ok, we will have to start a fire here and get you warm man…
Really cold here too – although we’ve missed the worst of it. On Friday they had 30 inches of snow on an island where we lived several years ago. Given that it rarely snows there, that’s an awful lot of snow.
Something I love about spring is being able to dry washing outside – there’s just something really right about clothes that have dried in the sun – not that we get much sunshine in Scotland.
ah….washing on the line…int eh breeze…getting the smell of the wind&sun in it….that is a good thought there tony…we used to play between the sheets hide n go seek…ha….
alright…talk amongst yourselves…i am off to pick up my boys….be back in a bit…
drive safe…
I love the snow and don’t have any grass to cut 🙂 And yes, hopefully, if the snow has gone, I’ll be going to Hay-on-Wye (a book town in Herefordshire, UK) for my birthday 🙂 See you tomorrow.
a book town…wow…that’s awesome… i can get lost in bookshops.. and a whole book town…oh my..oh my…i would be lost for days probably…smiles
Yes it’s a great place, even if I don’t buy anything 🙂
when i was in san francisco, there was this cool bookshop in haight ashbury and they had lots of art and poetry books… awesome…really, i had to drag myself out there…
Hay has everything you can imagine including cake and coffee shops 🙂
so what is a book town…i love books so the thought is fascinating…
and happy birthday!
http://www.hay-on-wye.co.uk/bookshops/default.asp
It’s a fascinating place, and thank you… but my trip there is off 😦 Another day perhaps… best laid plans and all that!
sun, warm, sun, warm, sun, warm… it’s not working… it’ll come though it always does… for me anything outside is great
smiles…a colleague at work sent me a spring construction sheet today… it said…blue sky.. green grass.. bees.. flowers.. sun….and all you have to do is cut it out and glue it to a paper sheet… it’s still in my mailbox…that’s the problem maybe…ha
Me too, walking outside after my work is what I really look forward to ~ Plus, I get to wear all my colorful spring clothes and sandals ~
ha…i def like outside as well….keep thinking those warm thoughts….we might have a break through…smiles…
claudia…are you saying you are to blame…i know what you need to do on your lunch hour tomorrow…ha…
A blustery, chilly day at the barn. The horses were one with the wind, galloping up and over the hills. I was cleaning the barn and could hear the drum beat of their hooves increase and then decrease in intensity as they ran past the window. All manes and tails held high – awesome sight. Most are cozy snug in their stalls now. I moved south for much warmer weather … but it will be here soon! Happy crazy spring, everyone.
so cool listening to the drumbeat of their hooves margaret….
happy crazy spring to you….
Now I want to write to write about spring ~ It’s a bit chilly here but thankfully our weather is above O, and all the ice is melting ~ I think its sweet of your mother to dote on her grandchildren, Brian ~
Wishing everyone a Happy Monday ~
happy monday grace…it is sweet of her…she loves on the boys good…
write that spring!
Well, I look forward to the buds on the trees, the butterflies and birds returning, the flowers blooming, the grass greening up. We still have snow on the ground. This has been the coldest March I can remember. Brian, I think that is so cool that your mother does that for each grandchild when they turn 10. My grandson here will turn 10 next September, so maybe I should consider something like that. As for spring breaks, they all vary around here. But grandson’s begins next Friday and goes the following week.
we got buds….we even have birds….though i imagine they are saying what the heck as well…ha….no butterflies….i like butterflies….
we actually had a cold march last year too
i bet he would love it…you should look for some local locations…will he be with you over his break?
No, his mother will also take off during his break. We do a lot of the local on a regular basis. What I would do at some point is take a small ‘road trip’ with him, somewhere away from the immediate area. Ha, we have robins here, but they must be freezing at the moment; and worms are nowhere near the surface. Smiles.
yeah if i was a worm i would dig deep and find a blanket…ha…
where they are going is about 3 hours away or so…
it will be a cool road trip…
Spring? You mean there is actually a season between winter and summer? Did someone forget to tell Mother Nature? I think Persephone may have eaten additional pomegranate seed or two.
ha. perhaps….not sure what kind of spring we might actually get this year…if i remember correct winter started late this year as well….hmmmm
Soon we’ll be headed back to cold country and the unpredictable spring in Reno but in the meantime enjoying summer-like weather in the desert. But when we get home I do look forward to cleaning out the garden, planting for summer and waiting for those tomatoes to grow. David’s got his seedlings going strong. Hold on to hope. Spring will be there eventually. Did you hear a group wants to sue Pauxatawny (sig) Phil for his mis-prediction?!
haha good luck to them with that…thats funny…and nice, rubbing it in on your cold weather…maybe i need to fly west for spring…gotta see if i can sprout wings…smiles….the garden…tomatoes…you are speaking my language there…i love tomato sandwiches in summer….mmm….
Well in India we are coasting towards summer, quite early than scheduled…global warming!! Getting hotter day by day…so spring is counting your eagerness!!:)
summer will be here before we know it…and we will be wishing for the cool kiss of the breeze we have now you know…ha…
I would certainly be sick of the snow by now. But when it generates this kind of fun post and such fine snowmen as these, well, I guess I can’t fault your long winter! {Here: I have these Daphne cuttings and daffodils from my yard just for you….}
ha. thank you for the clippings…smiles…and may spring find us soon…
A pale sun is struggling through the cold winds and starting to melt the remnants of ice and snow lying on the grass in front of the window here!…I’m concentrating on the sun…as Turner once said!!!
Geraldine
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Men secretly like to mow??? I love this little tidbit of information. 🙂
Cute snowmwen.
I too am sick of winter… at least someone got outside and made snowmen your way. I love the canoe paddle arms.
I almost feel guilty admitting that spring is in full force here.
But smugness is winning out…
😉
The fruit trees are blooming here in mid-Italy and the grass is that spring green that looks neon. Temps in the 50’s and some sunny days even warmer. So many reasons to love spring, but planting my balcony garden is certainly a big one.