Showing posts with label snow day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label snow day. Show all posts

Saturday, February 29, 2020

“The only thing we should scream into the world is love.” ― Jill Telford

February 1
Hey, look at that! Eatin' healthy on the first day of the month. Would be great if this was a trend. I'm not a salad person, but I do enjoy a Blue Coast salad. The chips, though .... I like those, too. Oh well.
February 2
I saw my shadow. You know what that means, don't you? Six more weeks of .... weather.
February 3
Birthday dinner with peeps. I skipped the cake and ice cream this year, just because, although I did get a complimentary dish of ice cream, thank you, Outback. Nobody sang to me. I'm good with that.
Grandson Knox made me a birthday card on Minecraft. Pretty cool.
My great-nephew, Finn, also celebrated his birthday on the 3rd. He enjoyed a pool party at the Y. Can't believe he's 4 already. He and Knox are buddies. My nephew, Alex, also shares this birthdate. 
February 4
Target practice. If I fire enough bullets, I will eventually hit the center. Eventually.
February 5
Different day. More rain. Another flood.
February 7
Snow day!
February 7
Ella loves building with her blocks. How 'bout that tower? It was listing to the right and finally submitted to gravity.
February 7
Snow day for Knox means Fortnite either solo or with friends.
February 7
I'd never heard of a Snow Moon until now--first full moon in February. Not quite full until the 8th.
February 8
Slow drip. Icicles are just the coolest. 
Let it go!
February 10
And we're back to rain .....
February 13
Kelly and Ella on Snapchat--too cute not to share.
February 13
Hanging with the grand peeps while Kelly and Kerry enjoyed an early Valentine dinner
Shelby loves to read. Ella loves books. I hope one day Ella will be a bookworm, too.
February 14
We enjoyed Knox's 2nd grade Valentine's Day play. They sang songs, told jokes, and read poems. Knox got to read one of the Valentine poems. 
A valentine in a bowl--I couldn't believe all the heart-shaped Cheerios in my bowl of cereal this morning and wondered why until I noticed this was a special edition box of Cheerios. They should have these all the time.
Valentine dinner at the golden arches. Of course, Valentine's Day landed on a Friday this year, and more often than not, this is where we end up every Friday night with Kelly, Knox, and Ella. So it was Happy Clog-Your-Arteries-Heart-Day for us. 
February 17
What is that big ball of blazing light in the wester sky? Oh yeah. I remember. They call it the Sun. A rare sighting this month.
February 19
She's got the bed head
February 19
I had no idea this is a thing. Did you? Was tempted to check it out .....
February 19
Neil has been working hard on our deck furniture, sanding and painting it all black. 
February 19
As I took this pic, I wondered if it would snow on the buttercups this winter .....
February 20
.... was there any doubt? ..... I meant to get an actual pic of it snowing on the buttercups but I totally forgot.
Cardinal couple watching it snow. The squirrels had already dumped all the birdseed on the ground below the feeder. 
February 21
Another Friday. Another dinner at MickeyD's. Is this a creepy picture or what? Kelly had Knox's Spiderman lunch bag sitting on top of Ella's diaper bag on their seat. Looks like Spidey is trying to snatch some of Knox's ranch sauce.

February 21
She knows how to chill
February 22
Who needs toys when you've got a pile of rocks to play with?
There's that big ball of blazing light again. Sunshine (almost) on my shoulder. Makes me happy.
February 23
Sunday after worship brunch with Shelby, Holly, Knox, Ella, and Kelly
February 24
February 25
February 25
Elijah got to attend Faze Atlanta. If you're a fan of gamers on You Tube, then you'll know exactly what this is. He got to watch some of his favorites play in a tournament. He was very excited to get to meet some of them and talk to them and have his picture made with them. 
February 28
Snow day!
My hubby Neil celebrated his 69th today with a giant chocolate chip cookie cake (not a cake really).
He is the official birthday party punch maker in the family, so yes, he made his own birthday party punch.
Happy 69th!
Party peeps! From left: Jane, Sarah, Julia, Holly, birthday boy, Knox, Ella, Kelly, Shelby, and Don...
...and Elijah (who ended up getting his picture taken anyway, thanks, Jane😉)

February 29
Leap Year Day
This extra day every four years might make up for some of the hours taken away by daylight saving time (next Sunday--boo!!)
What did you do with your extra day?
I cleaned house.
And made this blog post.
Thanks for looking!

+I found this quote (below) that is really neat about leap year+

“Today is an ephemeral ghost...

A strange amazing day that comes only once every four years. For the rest of the time it does not "exist."

In mundane terms, it marks a "leap" in time, when the calendar is adjusted to make up for extra seconds accumulated over the preceding three years due to the rotation of the earth. A day of temporal tune up!

But this day holds another secret—it contains one of those truly rare moments of delightful transience and light uncertainty that only exist on the razor edge of things, along a buzzing plane of quantum probability...

A day of unlocked potential.

Will you or won't you? Should you or shouldn't you?

Use this day to do something daring, extraordinary and unlike yourself. Take a chance and shape a different pattern in your personal cloud of probability!”

Saturday, November 30, 2019

“My lovely November, Have you seen my heart, somewhere in your castle of yellow leaves?” ~A Waltz for Zizi

November 1
Little Miss Sweetcheeks
November 3
“Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moon rise.”
~Gladys Taber

November 3
Ice cream at the Lazy Cow Creamery
November 9

“Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.”
~Cyril Connolly

November 9
Neil painted our bench black. Used to be red. 
Ditto for the swing.
Pulling up the dead things
Jeff the scarecrow seems to like the black bench. Hard to tell 'cause he's always smiling.
November 9
Turkey time in Tennessee
Blessed all day every day
November 10

“Yes. Not winter, not fall. I’ve always liked November ...."
~André Aciman

November 10
Daughter Kelly's couple of days early birthday brunch at Crawdaddy's
43. She wears it well.
November 10

“There is October in every November and there is November in every December! All seasons melted in each other’s life!” 
~Mehmet Murat ildan

November 10

“In November, the trees are standing all sticks and bones. Without their leaves, how lovely they are, spreading their arms like dancers. They know it is time to be still.” 
~Cynthia Rylant, In November

November 10
Ella loves the Lazy Cow Creamery ice cream
Whatever flavor her mom's having
November 11
Ella's dad snapped this picture of her while they were on a walk around the neighborhood
She's bundled in the warm unicorn costume she wore for Halloween.
November 11
Grandpa and Knox discussing deep thoughts
November 12

“November comes
And November goes,
With the last red berries
And the first white snows."
~Clyde Watson

Woke up to some snow
It snowed this day 43 years ago when daughter Kelly was born
Unusual for middle Tennessee but not unheard of






I can't believe the kids went to school. They're usually out if there's a snowflake.
School started two hours late. But no snow delay for Kelly. She dropped off Knox so Grandpa could walk him to school.
Listening to tunes while waiting in line to pick up grandson Elijah and this one popped up.
At that point, it was 25 degrees.
November 13
Good in the hood yo
November 14
Out for a morning walk in the neighborhood
November 14
Watching the birds
November 15
Ella and Knox
Their mom Kelly snapped this one
November 19
Target practice
Neil's head shots with the Glock
November 19

“Autumn! The greatest show of all times!” 
~Mehmet Murat ildan

November 20
Aunt Holly is Ella's new bestie 'cause Aunt Holly shares her white chocolate covered Oreo
FYI: white chocolate covered Oreos are da bomb!
November 21
Can't stop taking pics of the sky, especially one like this
Meanwhile, Neil waits for me to be done taking pictures of the sky so we can go on a morning walk around the neighborhood
Either that, or he's guarding the trash can
November 25
Her joys are simple
Books
And a washcloth to carry around or wear on her head
What?
November 26
Ella's cousin Shelby dropped by to visit
These two always have fun with Snapchat
November 27

"....A glooming light, a gleaming darkness shroud
Its passage. All seems tranquil, all in tune.” 
~Cecil Day-Lewis

November 28
Thanksgiving
Stick a fork in me. I'm done.

“Don't wait until the fourth Thursday in November, to sit with family and friends to give thanks.
Make every day a day of Thanksgiving!” 
~Charmaine J Forde

The geese were heading south Thanksgiving day
There were two or three waves of them flying over 
Traditional Thanksgiving Day walk about the neighborhood
We burned up all those calories we just consumed.
Actually, that's a bald-faced lie about those calories.
You probably guessed that.
Thanksgiving sky

November 29
And so it begins ....

November 30
Christmas shopping today
(We avoid so-called black Friday.
Unless they're giving away free money, then there's no reason to leave the house that day.
So we assembled our fake pre-lit Christmas tree and hallelujah! decorated it on black Friday.)

Autumn is quickly fading into memory
Thankful for a lot of things and a lot of people
Thankful for these photos I snap and this little blog I keep so I can remember
As the saying goes, the days are long but the years are short.


Let misty autumn be our part!
The twilight of the year is sweet:
Where shadow and the darkness meet
Our love, a twilight of the heart
Eludes a little time's deceit.

Are we not better and at home
In dreamful Autumn, we who deem
No harvest joy is worth a dream?
A little while and night shall come,
A little while, then, let us dream.

Beyond the pearled horizons lie
Winter and night: awaiting these
We garner this poor hour of ease,
Until love turn from us and die
Beneath the drear November trees.” 
~Ernest Dowson, The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson


Gnight, November
Come in from the cold
We're making hot cocoa
with WHOLE milk: we're bold.
CHILL, November. CHILL.” 
~Lin-Manuel Miranda