Snow Again!

I keep posting about snow, then about it being melted.  Well, we just had another 5.1 inches, after an 8 to 12 inch prediction.  Jim Cantore from The Weather Channel came to town, and broadcast about Winter Storm"Q" from "Q" Street.  He ended up apologizing for us not getting what they thought we'd get.  Folks around us did get that much, but we ended up having some warmer air come in a few times, which slowed down the snow, resulting in less accumulation.  I was hoping for more, for the moisture.

I had two days off of work, but Larry just took one day off.  He filled the bird feeders Thursday after the snow started falling.

I showed some of these photos on Facebook.  I baked 7 loaves of bread Thursday, all from the same batch of whole wheat dough.

I also made some cauliflower vegetable soup.

 Heidi and I enjoyed some picture taking time outside.  At this point, we had about 3 or 4 inches.

This was taken from the door before the above photo was taken.  The UPS truck seemed to have no problems driving on the snow.  I wish the photos would appear in the order they were taken like they used to.

That's Larry blowing snow.

I am excited to see if the seeds I planted in this area come up when spring decides to arrive.

At this point, we'd had 4 or so inches.  This morning, when I got up, they said the total was 5.1, but the pile on this little structure looked to be at least 6 inches.  I wish I would have taken a photo of it, because when I looked out the door this afternoon, it was melted.

I wonder if I should be finding an inside winter spot for the bicycle so it will have a longer life.

When we went to bed last night, we figured there would most likely be school today.  I stayed up a little too late, so was glad to turn off my alarm after the 5:30 a.m. call came to let us know school was out again.  

I didn't get a photo taken of the huge batch of cabbage vegetable soup I made for lunch.  For supper, I made split pea soup with a little turkey ham and veggies, and a chili type soup with ground turkey breast.  I thawed out a bag of tomatoes from the garden for this soup, but also, ended up adding a jar of medium hot black bean and corn salsa.  I used 3 cans of white kidney beans, and one can of black beans.  I put onions, celery, and carrots in about every soup I make, unless I actually follow a recipe that doesn't call for them.

I had been seeing doves, dark eyed juncos, sparrows, and a few cardinals at the feeders, until I started looking for them with a camera.  Finally, I saw a sparrow to take a couple pictures of through the back door until it flew off.

I've mentioned looking at photos from a year ago, to compare what was going on.  I don't mind that spring is coming later this year, and we are expecting more snow in a few days, but once that's done, and it all melts, I hope spring will be ready to take over.  This photo of the hellebore was taken exactly one year ago. 

I hope you all have been safe from the winter weather that seems to have been widespread.  At least the days are getting longer!

I am going to leave some spaces between this and the next photo, in case you get grossed out easily, so you can leave the post, and not look at it.  A week ago Thursday, I had a shave biopsy done on a growth on my left ankle.  The woman who did it said I'd know within two weeks whether it was cancer or a wart of some kind.

It has been hurting, and I can't tell if the redness around it indicates an infection, but I decided to wait to see how it's doing next week before calling the dermatologist.  The center looks better than it did a few days ago, so hopefully, it's healing.

The swelling is actually from the veins that I am supposed to have a procedure done on in March.  I need to call the place where the scleotherapy is scheduled to see how healed the skin needs to be in order to proceed.  They are the ones who said to get the growth checked out.