Another winter storm warning…

is in effect for today. The snow is coming down heavily right now and the forecast is for  4 – 7 inches of snow and up to 1/10 of an inch of ice.  I have nowhere to put the snow when I clean off my car.  I cleaned my car off again yesterday and today will be the 3rd day in a row.  It is 31 days in the countdown till spring.  After today the weather should warm up a bit and we have thunderstorms predicted for Thursday.

Last year the tulip/magnolia tree across the street was getting ready to bloom as we had enjoyed a mild winter.

This is was taken in early March last year.

I found  a book on my Nook that I read yesterday and that occupied my time along with cleaning off my car again.  I did notice that I have some pretty good choices on there so perhaps I will read some of them as I paid good money for them.  I did go on Amazon and order a couple of books with the remainder of my Christmas gift card.

I was just looking at the Peoria journal Star which I have delivered each morning.  I see that a snake handling pastor from Middlesboro Kentucky died after being bitten by a snake.  http://www.wbir.com/story/news/local/2014/02/16/pastor-dies-after-snake-he-was-handling-bit-him/5529907/  He was a reality TV star.  Which leads me to remark that I dislike immensely those reality TV shows. 

 

Time for me to get moving and do something, anything that has a purpose.  I hope the sun is shining where you are!  Stay safe and be happy!!

Beth

P.S.  Blogger is not publishing my posts again until about 12 hours later.  So you will probably see this sometime tomorrow.

A warm 12 degrees…

this morning as the countdown till Spring stands at 44 days.  That is 17 degrees warmer than it was yesterday morning at this time.  Our winter storm watch has turned into a winter storm warning.  This event is to begin at 12 noon and last till 12 noon tomorrow.  Expected snowfall this afternoon, 6 – 8 inches.  Unknown amount over night with winds from the northwest gusting at 30 miles an hour.  So you can see that we are going to have a blizzard.  I will go out in a few minutes and start my car as I didn’t get it started yesterday.

I am resting my mind right now and reading a Harlequin romance.  You have to love these books as they don’t tax your brain in any way.  The plot is the same in each book, only the name of the author is changed and the locale is different.  These are little tiny books of just over 180 pages and I can read one of them in nothing flat.

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in nothing flat and in no time flat

Fig. very quickly; in much less time than expected. Of course I can get there in a hurry. I'll be there in nothing flat. We covered the distance between New York and Philadelphia in nothing flat. The waiter brought our food in no time flat.

See also: flat, nothing

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

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Some of our phrases here are very different from other countries.  My friend White Angel has been writing lately in her posts about their customs etc. in Tasmania.  I absolutely love reading about the customs, food, etc. in other countries!

And now I should get busy.  I have made up my mind to clean as if it was a warm sunny day.  That means running the vacuum, shaking the rugs and mopping the kitchen floor.  I may procrastinate a bit  though as I am going to get a pot of chili started first.  I love my homemade chili but I don’t like the canned chili.

Stay safe and be happy!!

Beth

Goodbye January…

and I will not be sorry to see you go.  But the good news is that it is only 48 days on the countdown till Spring.  We are under winter storm warnings for the next few days for mega amounts of snow.

I did it.  I marched into the rental office yesterday and told them I wanted my window NOW!!  ‘Oh well, Beth, we are waiting for insurance to approve it’ to which I replied “I know that isn’t true as Tom told me before Thanksgiving that it would be 10 – 12 days.” Well, she said, ‘I will just call Tom,’ which she did.  Tom said he had nothing to do with the window call Dennis.  Dennis said that Pekin Glass was supposed to have come and put that window in for me.  Somehow all of this passing the buck  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_passing reminded me of my package and the many hundred miles it traveled to reach me.  Anyway, I received a call late yesterday afternoon telling me that someone would be here sometime today to put my window in.  We shall see.  I am not holding my breath, especially with the weather forecast.

But, it is Friday and it is inching ever closer to Spring.  The days are getting longer and I have hope in my heart for all things good.  I have plenty of food and books and as long as the heat and electricity stay on I am good to face the rest of winter.  I do have a doctor appointment to fit in next week and some lab work to be done and I am hoping the weather will cooperate.  Winter  comes, but spring is close behind. (a phrase from an old George Jones song)

Have a good weekend.  Stay safe and be happy!!

Beth