Spring? Really?

Our March came in like a lion so I was expecting it to go out like a lamb... this past weekend wasn't very lambish! Leading up to the weekend the St. Louis area was under a Winter Storm Watch with projected snowfalls for my area of 7 - 11 inches. I had to be down at the property on Saturday during the day and then come home Saturday night so I could take Erik to the airport on Sunday morning at 4:00 so I was sweating it a little.

I woke up on Sunday morning about 3:30 and looked out. It had been sprinkling when I got home from the country about 10:30 and it was still sprinkling. The temp was well above freezing so no snow or ice - which was a good thing. I took the boy to the airport and got back home about 4:30 - still just a sprinkle or two. It even seem to have stopped altogether by the time I got home. I went back to bed and woke up Sunday morning about 8:30 to roughly 7 inches of snow and it was till coming down - hard!

It continuted to snow all day and we got a total of about 12 1/2 inches. The plows started coming through our neighborhood about 6:00 that evening but I had already gotten Austen to shovel the driveway and had gone to the store for that combination of food that we were out of to make French toast! (Isn't it funny how everyone runs to the store for milk, bread and eggs before a storm? I had not gone before and didnt' realize until Sunday morning that we were out of all three - plus a few other things.) It continued to snow lightly all night and it's still snowing at noon on Monday but just a light dusting so far.

So I'm working from my kitchen table and have a big pot of beef stew on the stove and logs for the fire. Here are a couple of pics from Sunday:


Aubri and Tom's kitty relaxing - she was trying to play an xbox game but the cat had other ideas!


View out my front door before we shoveled or the snow plays came. You can't even see my fairy under the tree!


Austen gearing up to go shovel the snow.

Golfing the furnace update

Just a bit of an update on what's going on here at the Jilly-bear ranch and town house. :) Not much more has been happening down at the property - we get these little dry spells during the winter months - well we will until we get that furnace hooked up. We have the thing but we need a licensed contractor to actually hook it up for the warranty. Maybe once the tax refund comes in...


I have been thinking of getting some (or making some) stencils so that I can do some Celtic Knot work around the windows and maybe spruce up the wall that I was going to paint a different color and ended up leaving it the same color as the rest of the room. It just seems to need something. I have looked up some knot work and have found some I like but I'm not sure I can put the detail into it on the wall like I would like to. We'll see once I get with Austen to help me make the stencils.


I had some sad news earlier this week - My Brother in Law (Randy's brother) has stage 4 lung cancer and they don't expect him to live more than a few months. The kids have all been trying to get over there to see him including Tom who is trying to get home next weekend. I will love to see my son but I hate the reason.


Working from home most of this week - had a procedure done on Wednesday - I'll give you the details once I get the results back. I'm hopeful that all is well - the doc wasn't too concerned so I'm taking that as a good sign.


Austen has been working on a Disc Golf goal all week. He finally got it finished last night and has been outside this afternoon practicing his 'putting'.