THE BIG SNOW

Hello again from Mt morris...

yes the snow fell ...wet, heavy and deep...we finally lost our power around 2 am on Saturday morning after a few brief outages..was going to post on Saturday morning, but we had no electricity...we did have our gas and water , so we were fairly comfortable...we got about 24 inches of snow on top of the 4 or 5 that had melted earlier and in between snowfalls, we were blessed with some freezing rain...woke up Saturday morning to a beautiful landscape of snow covered pine trees, (will post photos soon) downed limbs from the maples and a pond that is completely iced over and covered in snow. I'm really glad we were prepared with plenty of food, spirits, and toilet tissue...

our dog really loves the snow...he jumps and dives in it like a little kid ...he caught a mouse and played with it as it ran on top of the snow and finally got away from him...he thinks anything that moves is something to play with..on Saturday night, husband let him out to do his business and as he ran off the porch, he ran smack into a large deer that decided that he was going to come onto the porch and see if there was anything there it could eat...scared him so bad that he screamed...(imagine a dog screaming??)...and he almost knocked Henry off his feet as he tore around the hot tub trying to get back into the house...he did go back out, and then barreled back into the house to safety...big bad watch dog....I guess for 7 months, he is doing pretty well...I'll be really glad when his big boy teeth finally come in...he is chewing anything from the rugs to the rails on my chairs...loves my socks and my shoes (will have to buy more) and has devoured almost all his rag doll toys...he has a squeaker toy the he loves...we play catch with it and he is getting his eye- paw coordination together...he likes to play catch and for the most part is catching things that I toss up into the air...the other day he caught a piece of apple that I pitched to him..surprise, surprise.. he shocked himself that it was something he could eat....our other dog Freeland was an expert at catching food thrown to him...soooo...hopefully we will get thru the chewy puppy stage and get to the big boy refined, well behaved stage soon...he is growing by leaps and bounds ..doesn't know that he is too big to be a lap dog, and just loves to sit on my lap...he is turning into a small kinda well-behaved horse.

Heard from Syd this Am...she and her husband went to a hotel and are staying there until their power is back on...the Elec. Co, says around Friday, the 12...guess Allegheny county has thousands w/o power ...the shopping centers are functioning ..she is close to a Michaels, so she plans to get out there and try to buy some stuff to play with....guess they had to drain their pipes and do all that winterizing stuff before they left...I'm hoping that they come home to a nice warm house soon...

the gallery where I work also has a big problem...seems like the good neighbor that ownes the small shopping center that houses the post office and a couple of restaurants had his parking lot plowed out and the person doing the plowing just piled all the snow onto the Gallery property...now no one can get in and there is nowhere for us or our customers to park our cars even if we could get to work...very thoughtless of the person doing the plowing..so I guess I'm not going to work until the parking lot is cleared out....

looking out of the window onto my back yard ...I can see tracks of all the deer that visit and my bird feeder that is full of hungry birds..the pine trees and maple trees look beautiful dressed in all the snow...just like a picture post card....the sky is a rich blue with a few clouds and the sun is shining, turning the snow really glistening white with blue shadows ...glad I don't have to go out into all of this and I'm just glad that we have a warm house and plenty of food to keep us nice and cozy...it is so quiet with all the snow...

I hope that all of you out there are safe and those w/o power are keeping warm somehow..

until next time, stay warm and stay safe........