Let It Snow

Posted on December 19, 2008 by Suzanne

Mark thinks our total snow accumulation was around 8 inches. There was some blowing, so it’s hard to say.

It was the strangest storm. It didn’t get started here until much later than they had originally forecast, which probably means that it stalled out over some other poor souls that got snow dumped on them, too. When it did start, for us, it was freezing rain/sleet/ice pellets. Yuck. Somewhere around 3AM I woke up to hear thunder. And then it sounded like it was absolutely pouring, but I think that must have been ice, too.

And then snow.

Wheeee.

Downtown, the plows come through and shove it all to the middle. Later they’ll come back and scoop out the mountain of snow. At the moment, it makes parking AND driving a bit hazardous, as there really isn’t room for both — consequently many vehicles are pulled part way up onto the sidewalk.

pileup Let It Snow

I don’t expect I’ll see much traffic in the shop, but hopefully I’ll be able to keep on keeping on, getting tons of quilting and sewing done.

Wherever you are, I hope you are safe and warm (or cool if that is more appropriate…)

TTFN-

Suzanne

O Christmas Tree

Posted on December 18, 2008 by Suzanne

I forgot!

I meant to include this in my previous post, but…was so frustrated by the network connection that keeps going in and out and in and out and…

A postcard arrived from Vicki last week and I have been very neglectful about (a) posting it and (b) thanking her for it.

vickispostcard O Christmas Tree

So, thanks, Vicki. A much needed upgrade from the junk mail I usually receive.

This Christmas

Posted on December 18, 2008 by Suzanne

Yesterday’s Concert

At the beginning of the Holiday Concert, the Principal asked everyone that was in the audience that might have been in a Holiday Concert in a past year to raise their hand…I’m terrible at estimating percentages, but a whole heaping helping of that crowd had their hands in the air.

Here’s the 4th graders doing their musical part to ring in the holidays. Joe’s wearing the red tie. Will’s got the blue tie on. Joe’s shirt was tucked in, Will’s was not. Thankfully you couldn’t tell once they were all standing up in place.

4thgraders This Christmas

Holiday Gifts

Our school does a Holiday Store, parents (and others) donate “stuff” and kids get the opportunity to go shopping for presents for their family. Or themselves. Some of them are pretty honest.

Joe had his turn on Tuesday, and when he got to the shop he told me I could open one of the packages, cause it was stuff to decorate the store.

A snowman:

snowman This Christmas

And a mitten ornament:

mitten1 This Christmas

I thought he did pretty well. I don’t think he spent more than $1.00…

Will’s gifts are under the tree.

Ornaments

Warty Mammal has been posting pictures of some really interesting Christmas ornaments for the last 2 weeks. I thought I’d try to find something that matched the uniqueness of what she’s been sharing, but remarkably, I couldn’t find anything on my tree that was quite as…unique.

Instead, I thought I’d show you the glass ornaments that we added this year. We have a Stained Glass studio in town, and one Saturday they were doing glass blowing demos. Each kid got a blown glass ornament. I’m not clear on how much of the decoration was done by the boys themselves (nor do I know whose is whose…better figure that out…). But here are theirs:

glass1 This Christmas

glass2 This Christmas

50 points if you can find me in the picture.

My Internet connection has been astonishingly obnoxious this morning, so I’m going to click Publish and get this over with before I pull out any more hair.

Later -
Suzanne

Girls in white dresses…

Posted on December 17, 2008 by Suzanne

This afternoon is the Elementary School Winter Concert. I’ll be closing up shop in a little bit to go grab some lunch and then a spot in those horrid bleachers so that I can listen to the angelic performances.

I stopped at the gas station this morning to grab some caffeine. One of the women that works there has a daughter in 4th grade. I asked if her daughter was already for today, and was she all dressed up?

Apparently, she was, in fact, wearing a dress, having spent most of the previous evening trying on 30 different dresses, and 20 different pairs of shoes. Plus, of course, different dresses with different shoe combinations.

Whatever she decided on, I’m sure she’ll be adorable.

It made me grateful, though, for the clothing conversation that we had had at OUR house last night:

Does that white shirt still fit?

Yup.

Awesome.

I bought crisp white shirts (and ties) for the boys two years ago. They must have been bigger on them at the time than I remember, because the shirts still fit. This is probably the last year the sleeves will be long enough.

Their sartorial sense leaves something to be desired, though.

Joe decided to wear a different shirt to school, bringing the white shirt and tie to change into later. I suggested this to Will, and he must have misunderstood me. He stuck on a black sweatshirt, and then grabbed the white shirt, as if to put it on over top of the black sweatshirt.

Um. No.

I found a plain WHITE t-shirt for him to wear, and he was all set.

And then Joe asked if it would be OK if he just put his white shirt on over the shirt he was wearing. (Which was a dark gray shirt with Black writing on it.)

I found a plain white t-shirt for him, too.

You’d better watch out

Posted on December 16, 2008 by Suzanne

Cause Santa will be listening when you slip and fall on the snow-covered ice and he’ll hear you use all those bad words.

(I’m fine, just grouchy. We got lots of white precipitation today. Enough said.)

Although, with the cool mail I’ve gotten recently, I have no reason to be grouchy. last week, I jokingly suggested that people needed to send me chocolate. Deb said it was on the way, and I thought she was kidding.

dsc07478 Youd better watch out

Joke was on me — not only did I score chocolate, but I got one of the cute cupcake pincushions she had shown off last week. (The best one of course, since it is all RED…)

I was a little skeptical of the Dove chocolate that was labeled Bananas Foster, but I was too desperate for chocolate to care. And hey! It was pretty yummy!

I left them at the shop, so I’ll have to report on the Raspberry Ghirardelli stuff later…

(I can report that the cupcake is awesome and is performing admirably already). Thanks Deb!!!

Speaking of small annoyances that we have control over and don’t do anything about…OK, that was a terrible segue, as the actual conversation about it was in a previous post…but it is related to the pincushion, honestly…

Why do I put up with bent and fat pins??? Why?? Pins are cheap! I think I’ve ranted about this before — you know, how no matter how many pins there are in the pin container, you always (Always!) grab the bent one? And instead of throwing away (well, putting it in a container for safe disposal), you throw it back int he pin container?

So, oddly enough, I now own a fair amount of inventory, and one of the items in my inventory just happens to be containers of brand-new pins. I treated myself to a container today, and THOSE are the pins that are now adorning my new cupcake. Not those nasty bent ones that I had been putting up with before.

I have MORE cool mail to report on, however, the SCAN of that cool mail is stuck on the computer at the shop, and I’m at home with no way to access it. Duh.

I’m going to go post a new quilt project to my other blog, and then I’m going to go see if I can get any sympathy from my husband for my aches and pains from this morning’s fall. I’m not counting on much. He’s not very sympathetic…

Suzanne