Are ya'll ready for S-N-O-W?part 2

Jets do not fly that low here in nowhere land. At the same time my cell phone started blinking red for the whole sunset.
I am thinking little green men. LOL

Brenda,
We were typing at the same time.
That is very strange about the checkerboard. It would have been a good picture for sure.

We also have fighter jets and those copters going over our house very low. They shake the house and they are gone, you don't even see them they are going so fast.

Remember the old sonic booms?

Has anybody noticed its lighter at 5:30 PM instead of pitch black now!
Its downhill from here on folks!

2 more pumpkin headed cousins
Erin (l) Ashton (r)

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I Love this one of Erin.
I call it "Snow Baby".

Ooookay... one more and I'll stop.
(I could do this all day long I have 5 grandkids)
This is one of my very favorites of all the photos I've ever taken.
This was right after witnessing the birth of my grandson Leyton when
he was surrounded by his daddy and attending nurses.
I call it "Loving Hands".
I love how all the hands are reaching out to him from the darkness...

its my son's 14th bd today and i have been busy making homemade chicken noodle soup(homemade noodles)
tomorrow is my Vegas son's 24th! 10yrs apart they are! fun fun

talk to everyone tomorrow!

very beautiful pictures!!! cottage rose. you are lucky to have such georgeous g-children. how is every ones shopping going??? i just took the dog for a long walk he loves it so much. so do i really. people have to shovel their walks though. its kinda hard to get thru... really a good work out i guess... have a great day every one Ronna

Know what you mean. I walk the dog in the woods every day. We break a trail with the quad, but it is still hard walking. Flared my knee up something fierce. I had to walk the dog riding the quad yesterday morning. Put heat on it last night and it is much better.
Tramped through the swamp and over trees last night to find DH deer he shot. That, probably didn't help. LOL. I thought I would realy be in trouble with it today. The old body isn't what it used to be, but I still keep trying.

cparts thats all we can do I came down with the mother of all colds yesterday I can't be sick I have to work all weekend and alls I realy want to do is go to bed and WHINE LOL
Gloria

winter storm watch here for Sun...man, I really need to get my shopping all done today!! Yikes!!

yes we are under a winter storm watch here also... at 1 :15 pm all its doing is bearly flurrying. sure hope it stays that way. we have a family christmas party today. it should be fun. cparts.. ihope your knee is alright today. glevey hope you are feeling better. sure do hate to be sick on the holidays. :( well we had no power this morning for about two hours from all the wind last night. i hope everyone has a wonderful christmas season... Ronna

Man is it stinky at our house!! White out conditions, but the roads don't seem to be too bad. Just got home from making sea foam with DGS!!

HI EVERYONE I'm feeling better to day its so windy and cold here it was kind of nice this morning but temps fell realy fast this afternoon bbbbbbbbbbbbberrrrrrrrrr hope you all have a very MERRY CHRISTMAS !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gloria

We didn't loose even half of our snow. I hear that Saginaw lost it all in the melting before the freeze.
I am glad that wind calmed down. I thought I was going to look out and find a yellow brick road in front of the house.

I'm glad it did too but its still breezy out there not as cold had to sweep off the walks and deck be for all the kids get here and track it in
Gloria

Merry Christmas everyone!!

We're having a quiet Christmas eve. Hubby is all retired now and we are going to be slugs for a while. :) The son and his family are coming over tomorrow for dinner. I can't wait to see the grandbaby open her presents.

Weather is calm now.. We did get a little bit of snow but not enough to measure. We still have a white ground from the last snows.

Stay warm and come back after all the hoopla and tell us about your Christmas Day.

Brenda

We got dumped on.
At least 6".
SO beautiful and just in time for Christmas!
Merry Christmas everybody!

Merry Christmas from me too! Just got back from a family gathering and my stomach is killing me from eating so much. Another gathering on Wed...tomorrow I'm just laying around!!

Hope Santa makes it to your house!!

merry christmas everyone!!!! we had a wonderful suprise our son drove home from georgia hes in the Army. almost everyone knew at the hospital where i work the family knew. my husband didnt know either. but my ex knew, the daughters of course knew. so we were at my parents house for a christmas party on sunday afternoon and Matt drove up and suprised my parents and my self... what a wonderful gift to have him home for christmas. :):):):):). can you hear my joy???? I didnt have a ny gifts for him so i had to go shopping after work on monday. I had some gift certificate for him but i couldnt send them to him we had no address for him. so this way i got to give them to him, and thats much better. he looks really really good he seems like he really has followed his calling. im very proud of him. have a wonderful holiday Ronna

Wow Ronna, what a great Christmas gift............having your military son home for the holiday. I am so happy for you.

It's all over here. Dinner done, kids gone, dishes washing in the dishwasher, hubby snoring in the recliner with the TV blairing, dogs asleep between his legs. Another Christmas past. We had a wonderful day. Dinner turned out great and on time. Everybody liked their gifts. We got a kick out of watching the grandbaby open her toys. Weather was good. Still had enough white on the groung to make it look Christmas-y. Now on to New Years. We'll probably babysit so my son and DIL can go out and celebrate.

I'm attaching a pic of the granddaughter. We discovered she's crazy about black olives! She even opened a cupboard in the kitchen and found a can. She put it in her box of toys going home. She saw the picture on the can of the olives and said, "yum yum".

Brenda

Merry Christmas all it was a very good day had a house full tummys are full and now its so quiet I love my kids but oh how sweet the calm after the storm I miss them already !!!!!!!!!
Gloria

Cute pic of the lil' olive eater.
I always feel a little let down after they all th kids and grd. kids leave...like it was over too fast.
All that preparation and anticipation then in a few hours its over.... sigh...
never-the-less much fun.
My husband and I always say as we are waving goodbye..." we love to see them come and we love to see them go."
Boy those grand babies keep you hopping and poop ya out don't they?
We've gotten rather spoiled by our empty nest life style. ;o)

My gathering is today....CR you are right....all that work for such a short time. We have 2 new grandbabies...should be a fun day watching them! I'm using all 'real' dishes, so I'm dreading the aftermath of dinner...yuck...all those dishes...

Sounds like everyone had a great Christmas. I love hearing about the great surprizes and fun with your families.
We had 2 dinners here. One on sat and one yesterday. Both meals went well and everyone was over filled and happy.
We had so much fun seeing everyone. Our grandbaby, the kids, cousins, parents, brothers and sisters. What fun to have everyone together.
Should have been a big stress, but I planned well and it went off great, and I had plenty of time to enjoy everyone.
We had a special treat in the morning. A rooster pheasant came to visit us at our bird feeder. This is the first one we have seen here in 12 years. We thought it must be a good luck sign. And I think it was.

wow cpartschick,about the pheasant. over here in gladwin twp they are like rats. we have them everywhere. they are a bit annoying in the spring when they are mating, they make lots of noise even before the sun comes up. very pretty birds though. merry christmas all, my gosh is that the sun? yes.yes i think it is.

Ha,ha. I thought I saw some bright stuff, but didn't know what it was called. Sun, you say?

greathorse, are there alot of fields around you? I can see where a bunch of those buggers could be noisy. I sure enjoyed seeing this one though. We do see them flying over the road and that, but never by the lake, river, or in the marsh. Too many coyotes and bobcats. This pretty guy may be lunch for somebody, if he hangs around.

funny, yes we have lots of corn fields around us.i hope he's not lunch,they are pretty. i've never had them in my bird feeder though.i think the new dog may keep them away too.

I live in Sage township, right next door!
I am glad to hear that the phesant population is doing so well. Used to see them all the time as a kid. They are a beautiful bird.

I had to laugh about your spring mating season. Here we have the geese and peeper frogs. So loud at night that you have to close the windows.
In the woods, the owls, coyotes and bobcat get pretty noisy.
I love it though.

Merry Christmas to all!
I am glad everyone got to share with their loved ones, young and old.
Dori-
there is a jewish joke about the family leaving. Its a little risque', so
if you want to hear it, send me a dm! LOL

Now, we are waiting for the new election year, oooops, i mean
happy new year. And so it starts.

we only got about 1" the other night, just white to cover it up on
the christmas morning. very pretty.
sheri

Wiggly, already got an automated call about someone running for president. Sheeeesh. On Christmas eve at 6 pm.
I think we will have to unhook the phones for a year.

I'm pooped...had our family gathering at our home yesterday and even though I had things all planned out....it was still a little frazzling. Just got the third load of dishes in the dishwasher. Now I just need to put away all the Christmas dishes and serving pieces.

Someone dumped a big glass of mountain dew on the kitchen floor, so that needs a cleaning now too. I always wait to burn all the wrappings for a couple of days as I can't tell you how many times I've received a frantic call..."missing money or gift card!"

Weather looks foggy out...can't tell if it is a light snow or what. But I hear that we are under a winter storm watch or something of some sort for Friday...I don't plan on venturing from the house, so that is fine with me!

Off to just stare out the window for a bit!

We are getting snowed on good right now!! It so pretty.
Visibility is down to maybe a 1/4 mile
Staying in watching movies and playing rock band or dance dance with the family
Had a great Christmas with my family(without Teig)had a great dinner Meijer cook and DH warmed up, then it was hours and hours of rock band and millions of laughs! :)

Been a busy holiday -so if i missed saying Merry Christmas-then Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Stay warm and safe everyone

Getting dumped on now also good night to stay home and veg out stay warm
Gloria

Snowy here too...lots of cancelations. Is 5:30pm too early to get the pj's on?

sue i got out of the shower this morning and into my pj's! so go for it!!!
burger king for hubby and me tonight! McDonald's for the boyz

its coming down out there, Teig said it was windy and 50s in Vegas today!

snow snow go ahead and snow cover all my flowers-snow snow snow******
just looked and the big pine tree out front, the branches are weighed down
with some heavy wet snow, they are touching the ground. pretty!

This message was edited Dec 28, 2007 5:43 PM

It's still snowing here. We have about an inch or more on the ground so far. It is a wet heavy snow.

I plan to stay in my jammies tomorrow and not go anywhere. That's the beauty of wintertime.............getting to be slugs for a while and just veg out. :)
Drove by the casino in Standish today. The parking lot of full! It looks about ready to open to me. There were still workmen there and deliveries coming in. It looks like it will be really nice.

Hubby bought some cards and poker chips. He's going to teach me how to play. It's something to do. I'll let you know if I beat him. ha ha ha

Brenda

Well it snowed here this afternoon...about a inch..now it is raining...34 F....oh my ....the ice has come and gone..lots of time..already...if it cold tonight..it will look like glass again...layers and layers..the fisherman were out..there earlier..heheh....Jammies...sound great...Not going anywhere...tomorrow..so...hehe we can have a jammy party...lol...think I will put some soup on...sounds good..for tomorrow..always good luck..to make it..

KKKK...stay in stay safe...stay warm.....waving from the southern part of Michigan....

Smiles..Diana...

I'v been in my jammies since I got home from work now its hot toddy time we'v got about 3 inches of snow right now
My sil has been working at the new casino for several weeks now he think that thay will open on time there almost ready and its realy nice he goes to Los V. in Feb for more intense training.
Gloria

Looks like we got at least 6" of the stuff. Windy this morning.
We sure have had a good snow year so far. I bet the sport shop people are loving it. Snowmachines and skis. Some years you can't even get them out.
We have a couple quads, we can use them year round. I enjoy snow more when I can get out and tool around the woods on wheels.

Just wanted to add that flannel pants are the best winter indoor item ever. Cuddle up with some hot soup and let it snow.
Is this how everyone feels? Guess all the company tuckered him out.