Let It Snow...Let It Snow...

Let it Snow!!!

Ahhh...the first snow of the season visited us on Saturday, starting on and off in the earliest of afternoons...making me rush home and grab the camera...

Which is a little goofy, because it hasn't snowed that much, and we're not forecasted to get any accumulation...but, it's the first snow of the year...I want to strap on some snow shoes and get out in it.

Now, if only I had snow shoes...

or deep snow.





Of course there's hope...

Because the snow was coming

down...

down...

down...

in small little fluffs, and just mere minutes later looked like this:


Which of course, makes me want to snuggle down for the evening and read...

But, perhaps I will go inside instead of standing out on the porch in the shivery cold.

I'm just sayin'...

I kind of figured something exciting was going to happen today, as I went to warm up the car this morning (to go check to see how much more of the ceiling had fallen in at the shop) and the lock and door on the drivers side was frozen shut...and I had to use the passengers side and scrape the enormous (ok...teeny) amount of ice off the windshield...



Of course the cat had to immediately go out and sit outside...

On the windowsill...

and look in at me...

shivering.

She would not come in though...

I guess she's punishing herself for something?



So, I came inside where, I started dinner...

I know what you're thinking...

SOUP!

Nope, enchilada casserole (we're in the southwest here people, give me a break) the official dinner of the first snow...Naw, not really, I was planning on making this before all the white stuff came falling out of the sky...

Ahhhh...comfort food.

After that, I worked on making my world even more snuggly, which is good...because it's downright cold...I washed all the flannel sheets, duvet cover and Christmas quilt and ran everything through the dryer...

so it's all smelly good and I can have rolling around in the clean sheets time later...
Because, there's nothing like clean snuggly yummy sheets to make you feel that much more wonderful!

And, that is indeed my Christmas quilt. I bought it years ago as a special gift for myself...it is a double wedding ring pattern. I love the green and red with the yellow stars in the middle...

sigh.



Snow brings out the comfort in me for sure. There has always been a part of me that wants to live somewhere where it really snows...like when it snows, you get stuck inside? That kind of snow? When I voice things like that to Rich, he says..."Spoken like a true Arizonan...you realize you still have to go to work right? Like you can't call in and say that there's too much ice or snow in your driveway? They'll ask why you weren't up at 3 blowing and shoveling" I know he knows what he's talking about coming from NewHampshire...he would actually loose power sometimes, and it would become a candlelit house...

It still sounds fun though.

He called me this morning to tell me the snow was cute.

He's right, we have cute snow up here in Northern Arizona...

Cute indeed!

AND THE WINNER IS:

Precarious Tomato!! Well, T...it IS going t make me feel better to send you some towels indeed..