so how was YOUR snow day?
Dec. 20th, 2009 08:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swingchickieours went from crazy, to relaxing, to crazy in a span of about 12 hours.
by the time we woke up yesterday morning, there was about an inch of snow on the ground already. and we had a few hoops that had to ship out, in order for customers to get them before Xmas eve. so we loaded them into jack's car and made the slow, slippery drive to the post office, watching as cars spun out all over the road.
loading the hoops in the snow...
after leaving the post office, we decided to stay out a bit longer before we were forced inside by the storm... got breakfast at IHOP, which we do maybe once a year because we feel like such crap after we eat it. stuffed, we rolled back to the house and did our first round of shoveling. which turned out to be useless, because we were shoveling the first 2 or 3 inches of what turned out to be a 22" snowfall. eek.
the daytime was nice -- movies on demand (i'll post about that separately), an afternoon nap, and lots of kitty snorgling:
hello duck!
angus snoring in front of the snowy window
duck was especially love-y, spending most of the day hunkered down between me and jack on the sofa. every once in a while he'd crawl into our laps or our arms for more lovin':
or to clean himself a little too up close and personal.
for dinner, we turned the light on the deck and ate in front of the big picture window, with the "yule log" video playing on the TV on demand for more ambiance (hee), looking out as the storm continued to blanket the backyard with white. it was really pretty. we kept the deck light on for the rest of the evening so we could watch the snow fall... which lead to an almost-scary incident:
as we were watching TV, jack looked over at the picture window and suddenly gasped. i followed his gaze, and saw what i thought was a donkey in the backyard. it was grayish and had a white nose... turns out it was a light-colored deer that had been foraging the snow. she'd come right up to the deck to eat from the pans of birdseed jack had left out on the flowerboxes, and she was just standing there looking in the window, mere feet away. she was adorable. i grabbed my camera and took some video:
about halfway through the video (after this exchange -- me: can you shoot her? jack: i don't have my gun. me: i mean with the CAMERA. *shaky video of me handing the camera to him* LOL), you can see that all of a sudden she notices angus in the window and gets completely freaked. angus was freaked as well, he was like WHOA, WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?... but you can see in the video that she starts to feel threatened by him and starts preparing to charge. we had to stop taping her and shoo her away, for fear that she'd come crashing right through the glass and hurt herself and us. turns out that just out of our line of sight, she had a fawn she was protecting. so she definitely would have charged angus if we hadn't intervened. my heart was thumping for quite a bit after that.
10 minutes later, we heard a *crunch* in the front yard... my neighbor across the street, a little too eager with the plow on his truck, barreled right into my mailbox and knocked it over. he got out of his truck, looked it over, and parked in his driveway and went inside. never knocked on my door to tell us what had happened. so today, not only do we need to dig out of a 2-foot snowfall... we also need to fix my mailbox. and maybe deer-proof the deck. looooong day ahead.
by the time we woke up yesterday morning, there was about an inch of snow on the ground already. and we had a few hoops that had to ship out, in order for customers to get them before Xmas eve. so we loaded them into jack's car and made the slow, slippery drive to the post office, watching as cars spun out all over the road.
loading the hoops in the snow...
after leaving the post office, we decided to stay out a bit longer before we were forced inside by the storm... got breakfast at IHOP, which we do maybe once a year because we feel like such crap after we eat it. stuffed, we rolled back to the house and did our first round of shoveling. which turned out to be useless, because we were shoveling the first 2 or 3 inches of what turned out to be a 22" snowfall. eek.
the daytime was nice -- movies on demand (i'll post about that separately), an afternoon nap, and lots of kitty snorgling:
hello duck!
angus snoring in front of the snowy window
duck was especially love-y, spending most of the day hunkered down between me and jack on the sofa. every once in a while he'd crawl into our laps or our arms for more lovin':
or to clean himself a little too up close and personal.
for dinner, we turned the light on the deck and ate in front of the big picture window, with the "yule log" video playing on the TV on demand for more ambiance (hee), looking out as the storm continued to blanket the backyard with white. it was really pretty. we kept the deck light on for the rest of the evening so we could watch the snow fall... which lead to an almost-scary incident:
as we were watching TV, jack looked over at the picture window and suddenly gasped. i followed his gaze, and saw what i thought was a donkey in the backyard. it was grayish and had a white nose... turns out it was a light-colored deer that had been foraging the snow. she'd come right up to the deck to eat from the pans of birdseed jack had left out on the flowerboxes, and she was just standing there looking in the window, mere feet away. she was adorable. i grabbed my camera and took some video:
about halfway through the video (after this exchange -- me: can you shoot her? jack: i don't have my gun. me: i mean with the CAMERA. *shaky video of me handing the camera to him* LOL), you can see that all of a sudden she notices angus in the window and gets completely freaked. angus was freaked as well, he was like WHOA, WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?... but you can see in the video that she starts to feel threatened by him and starts preparing to charge. we had to stop taping her and shoo her away, for fear that she'd come crashing right through the glass and hurt herself and us. turns out that just out of our line of sight, she had a fawn she was protecting. so she definitely would have charged angus if we hadn't intervened. my heart was thumping for quite a bit after that.
10 minutes later, we heard a *crunch* in the front yard... my neighbor across the street, a little too eager with the plow on his truck, barreled right into my mailbox and knocked it over. he got out of his truck, looked it over, and parked in his driveway and went inside. never knocked on my door to tell us what had happened. so today, not only do we need to dig out of a 2-foot snowfall... we also need to fix my mailbox. and maybe deer-proof the deck. looooong day ahead.
