RubyTuesday-Blizzard 2010

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Well that blizzard hit us on Friday into Saturday. It lasted about 26 hours,when it was done we had the most snowfall in all of Maryland. The Official number was 38.3 inches! Can you believe it, we even had thunder snow in our town. The lightening and thunder carried on for 30 minutes.

This is the start of the Great blizzard of 2010, started about 3 pm.

Saturday by noon- still snowing

Saturday at 5 pm starting to see the ended.
Still blowing and some snow still falling

the next day, Sunday...
Our front yard.
Our ruby car is buried in the driveway.
It will be the hidden ruby in this photo.

Houses liked those in a gingerbread village.
the little red fence peeking through.

We are expected 12 to 24 inches today into Wednesday, where will we put the snow? Forget school our county can't even get around. Some street communities are digging themselves out of their street. I told hubby I am going to dig around the clock through this next storm. He said we can take shifts. We really do not want to dig out two feet of snow. The over three feet was enough. Oh this is some winter, Oh yes, I wanted to go to Alaska but Nature brought it to me.

Our Heat is On..Snow is Coming

More snow coming our way. This weekend we are expecting 12 or greater inches. Hubby and I went out to get Pellets for the stove. We used different brands for the first part of the season. We found the need to clean out the stove greater as well as, the burn rate was faster. We tried to save money buying them. We are back to our preferred brand."Lignetics" a much better burn rate and less work for the clean out. They are a true 30 hour burn rate on the medium setting. We use a thermostat so tend to get longer burning times.
We purchased our stove in 2006. we were heating the solarium with an oil base electric heater. It ran the utilities high, cast as much as heating the house with the heatpump. We decided we needed another heat source. One that would be contained and at the same time environmentally friendly. Ours is by Lennox ,now Whitfield, style is Traditions, and a free standing stove. Now that I have learn more about these stove, I would pick another type. I like the pellet stoves, however there are some that allow you to clean the grate with out opening the door. After of the drama with the other pellets, many times I wished I had that type. Of course the style and color of our I love, have not seen any since.
Using the Pellet stove has helped with the heating of the house. This stove can put out some heat.

A Beautiful Sight.....

This morning when I awoke I saw the most Beautiful scene.
Thanks to the cameras I can hold onto them.
Enlarge the photos for a closer view.

My backyard view...
Sitting at my computer.

A closer view of the trees....
Love the blue sky against them.

This is our Dogwood tree...

It has only been 3 hours and the trees have already lost their snow coverings. The sky is not as blue. Clouds have rolled in and the snow is falling off the trees. As once was said "The early bird catches the worm". In this case "The early riser caught Natures Beauty!"

It's Feburary 2, 2010

It's Groundhog Day... Well did Our Phil see his shadow? I heard he is computer savvy now and talking about texting. What is happening to our Groundhog?

I found this cartoon, Loved it so I posted it for you.
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Our Weather-Snowflakes

It's starting to snow now. the flakes are like lint. As I child I remember this kind of snow. We use to have a saying; God is cleaning out his Clothes drier. It is so light and fluffy, one could almost see each snow flakes design. The temps are in the teens. so the snow is not heavy. I Love snow.We are not suppose to get much here in the Baltimore area. The accumulation is going to be south of us. We are planning a trip to the Ski resort tomorrow. I will be getting a lot of photos for next week postings.
the photo is from Crystal patterns in Astrology charts