Here We Go Again

This morning we woke up to - more snow! Not very much and it stopped early. It's nice and sunny now so I'm sure the roads are OK. Good thing because I have a hair appointment tomorrow in Black Mountain. Or as Erin says - I'm getting my spikes sharpened.

IF IT'S FRIDAY, WE'RE GETTING HAMMERED

(with snow.)
Yes, for the 3rd Friday in a row we are snowed-in here in Western North Carolina. This one caught everyone off guard. The snow was supposed to hit further south and we were only going to get a dusting. Surprise! It wasn't a lot of snow this time but enough to make the roads very slippery during rush hour. Our neighbor, George, was coming home from town at about 6:00 and couldn't make it up the road past the gazebo. He said there were accidents and cars off the road all the way down Highway 9 (which, if you've driven Highway 9 you know it's scary on a GOOD day.) Robert went to his rescue and picked him up and drove him home. On the way back Robert rescued another neighbor who couldn't make it up the mountain. I was thinking of tying a keg around his neck like a St. Bernard.
Saturday morning the roads were still covered with snow. Erin was going to drive up for the night but we told her to stay home. Later that afternoon the roads cleared and she ended up coming afterall. We had our surf & turf dinner that night. It was the best Valentine's Day ever!

Sunday after breakfast we went for a walk before Erin had to go back to Greenville.

She got a little blurry.

We built a snow woman along the road. On the way back I noticed her arm had fallen off and when I tried to put it back on she fell over and broke. I ruin everything!




Yikes!

We ran into this skunk on the way home.

Latest Alert

This is our latest weather alert: High wind and blizzard warning until tomorrow morning. The winds have been blowing all day. It woke me up at 5:00 this morning. Good thing or I might have missed this sunrise.

Someone Help Us

This is how pathetic we are from being locked in here.

Robert grilling dinner with his headset on so he doesn't miss "The Bachelor."

I'm Dreaming of a Green Summer

In the millions of snow & ice pictures I have stored on my computer I came across this one of my old garden. The tea house! Everything BUT tea was consumed there! Someday the mountains will be green again.

A Southern Winter?

OK, so here is how we spend winter in the south. Go to the store, stock up on food then get snowed in for a few days. Go to the store, stock up on food then get snowed in for a few days. Go to the store, stock up on food then snowed in for a few days. Oh, wait a minute. Sometimes we're iced in instead. We found out before we left Charleston that a big snow storm was coming along I-40 so we stopped at our neighborhood Ingles on the way home and stocked up. The next day we got about 9" of snow. It wasn't as bad as the week-before-Christmas-snow and we were dug out in a few days.

On our day of freedom we got really crazy and went to Asheville. We got our supplies then had freezing rain which kept us in for a few days. It wasn't as bad as the Christmas Day storm. The trees weren't falling down around us.

We got out once again and went into Black Mountain for more food. This time we were in for snow topped with freezing rain, rain, sleet, etc.

As promised, it snowed a few inches then we had sleet/rain all night and the next day.

Once again the trees were heavy with ice but very few were cracking and falling around us.

The cats don't mind being snowed in.

The trees were bending from the weight of the ice.

Saturday the sun came out for a bit in the afternoon. It made the trees sparkle.

We just started out for a walk when dark clouds rolled in and the wind kicked up and chunks of ice were falling everywhere. We chickened out and went back home.

At about 5:00 our neighbor, Barbara, called and we walked down to meet her at the gazebo.

Dark clouds started to roll in again so we all headed for home.

Sunday morning the sun was out and the trees were sparkling again.



Throughout the afternoon the sun was melting the ice on the trees and it was raining ice chunks in the woods. The trees that were bent over from the weight of the ice were springing back up.

Sunset.

Charleston

In between snow storms we managed to escape to Charleston for a few days. George & Theresa were there for a few weeks and invited us down. We took a carriage ride.

We had dinner here the 2nd night.