see how high the snow is getting by the deck



huge icicle on the back of my neighbors house


looked much prettier from my kitchen window

this is actually kind of pretty

good thing the birds went south..lol

view of my front yard..well it will be a yard
this all melts

Well, before I get started, let me just say that whenever I post the pictures after I write whatever I decide to write about, the pictures always head for the top of the post. This time, I put the pictures in first, trying to see if they will move to the bottom of the post where I want them. All of this extra effort could be avoided if I could only remember how Susan told me to move stuff around. Every time I try it, I end up deleting stuff...

As I was looking out my kitchen window yesterday, I was briefly charmed by how pretty everything looked with the fresh snow. Notice the word briefly..i got over it. Anyway, you know how fresh snow looks...when the sun is shining on it and nobody has walked on it yet? It absolutely glittered! It looked like someone had thrown thousands of tiny tiny diamonds all over it. The sparkle was phenomenal. I was so enchanted by it, that I threw on my coat and gloves and went outside to take some pictures. Of course, the view from the deck was not at the same angle as the view from my kitchen window, and the snow was way too deep to walk out into it to get the picture to look like what i saw. But I took some pics anyway and thought you might like to see what Monday morning looked like here. Then I was playing in Paintshop and made something out of one of the pics that I thought I might share with you as well..Arent you the lucky ones..lol...I took the photo of the tree in my front yard..cropped it to a smaller size and used a program called virtual painter on it..then I used the results to make another project which I will post also..hopefully at the TOP of the post..lol.
Meanwhile, I have weather news...we are going to hit 30 on Thursday! Now I know that this doesnt sound exceptionally warm and a few years ago , I would have said that was freezing..but you gotta see...it's 3 right now..thats right..3 lousy degrees..and I just had to take the dog outside for the millionth time since I got home. Ok, I exaggerate..I took her out twice,Alec has been taking her out tonite but he was in the shower just now. So of course, it takes her forever to find the perfect spot to do her business...and it really shouldnt cause the only space she has is the spot we shoveled for her..the rest of the yard , the snow is over her head!!
Little Mali is home from the hospital..poor little buggy...it's awfully hard when your children are sick and you have to trust other people to make them well..Hope she is doing better today and that Boo isnt totally worn out.
Well thats it for now. I need to work on some more of those Christmas pages so I can take those scrapkits off my desktop and move them to the storage drive!!
G'nite.