Last night we got some more snow and some very cool temperatures too! The high I saw today was 3° and that was when I got up at 8am! Right now, the weather channel says it is -8° outside. I concur that it is quite frigid…enough to make one’s lungs complain when breathing in such cold, frozen air!
Next snow, maybe on Tuesday. After that nothing in the forecast through the 23rd. Keep your fingers crossed and pray for Christmas snow!
Yesterday we got hit with our second snowy day! Yay! It’s about time! I love waking up to see snow on the ground, and it continued to snow all day. When it was all said and down, the official count in Boulder was 7.2″ (there was 5″ when I left work at 5pm and it was still heavily snowing). The count at our house in eastern Boulder County was 4″. The cities/state did a good job of keeping the roads cleared and I was shocked to come home and find that our street had been plowed. Our street never gets plowed!
Next chance of snow is Sunday night/Monday. Make sure you check the Snow Totals page for the current count.
Why is it that vacations always go by too fast? I’ve been off work since Wednesday and am now down to one day off left (that being tomorrow). Of my time off I have only seen Noah on Thanksgiving. The rest of the time he has been at work or working on the basement. I’m ready for this project to be done. On the plus side, I hope to have the 3rd wall in the bedroom done or 95% done tonight. I just have touch-ups left to do and the baseboard. I’m actually taking a break from it now…I’m losing too many brain cells from the fumes!
This year for Thanksgiving we spent the day with friends. Once more I am thankful Ben Franklin was out voted. The food was delish! Yesterday I braved the crowds…or lack there of to hit a couple of stores. The perks of small town shopping is no lines! Either that or I have an ability to pick the best times to go shopping. 🙂 What topped yesterday off was that last night it snowed! A real snow this time and I had no idea it was coming! What started out as rain turned over to a frozen mix and then to all snow. By morning we had 2″ of snow on the ground. Not a lot, but enough to blanket everything and stick to tree branches. I took some pictures, but have not yet uploaded them. Now, it really feels more like Christmas with snow on the ground. I’m ready for more!
It snowed! I got up this morning to a dusting of snow. Yea! Although at our house we had less than a half inch, my office in Boulder had about that much, it goes down on record as the first snowfall of the season.
Of course, the mountains, SW Denver suburbs and the eastern plains got more than we did. In fact, the snow we did have has already melted and you can’t tell it snowed at all anymore. 🙁
I’m ready for more. Maybe a Thanksgiving blizzard???
Halloween came twice this year, as it normally does for us. Last Saturday we went to a Halloween party where Noah was dressed as a very convincing Urkel-esq nerd, and I wore cow-polk attire. Then on the actual day of Halloween my work continued it’s tradition of dressing up. This time I wore my full motorcycle riding outfit, impressed many a co-worker (thanks Sandy). There were also 3 Racing Sausages, Clark Kent on the verge of becoming Superman, not one but two Sarah Palin’s and a Catholic school girl. The rest of my office is boring and decided not to dress up. There was supposed to be a contest, but it never happened.
As far as Trick-or-Treaters go, this year we had 16. Still not many, but a steady increase from our tally last year.
2008 – 16
2007 – 13
2006 – 10
Notice a pattern??? So, in about 10 years we’ll have a decent amount of kids come by our house. 🙂
Frost – 
Freezes –
Sprinklers winterized –
Trees littering the ground with leaves –
Geese returned –
Snow – Snow? Snow?!
It’s 75° right now! We should have had our first snow by now…where’s the snow??
In light of Noah’s departure from Floorcrafters a few months ago, and after much prayer (continuing) we have decided to create our own company. Of course, this is not going to be a quick process – I’m much too anal for that; and until the company has a chance to make a name for itself, Noah will continue to work for someone else.
However, we are in the process of creating Homestead Hardwood Floors. Has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? So far I am still researching the back-end of things (what type of company to create: General Partnership, LLC, Ltd, etc), licenses required by the state/cities/counties, how much insurance will cost, equipment, tax liabilities, etc. Yet, we have successfully reserved the company name with the state and purchased a domain name (no website yet, so don’t go trying to punch URL combinations into your browser window).
As things progress I will keep you posted. Please continue to pray for us as we take on this new venture.
Now that we have returned from our mini-vacation to California, I’m ready for some snow. But before getting into that, here’s a recap on our trip out West. Warning: this post is long…
Just when we thought we were in the clear for not having to go to California at all this year, especially since we were out there 4 times in 2007, Noah’s brother decided to get married. As a result, up we were at 4am Thursday morning to head off to DIA (thank you Stan!!) to board a plane bound for Burbank. FYI – 6am is a very early flight.
Thursday was spent mostly sleeping and visiting local food establishments that really should open franchises out in Colorado…like Jim & Robs. Yum!
Friday was more bouncing around between restaurants meeting friends, more napping (man that time change is a killer — j/k 8) ) and finally heading up the hill to Noah’s brother’s rehearsal/rehearsal dinner. This is the 2nd of Noah’s three brothers to make it to the alter. The eldest, Joe (10 years older than Noah), who recently moved back to Colorado married 2 years before we did. Now Nate, the 3rd eldest (2 years older than Noah) got married 4 years after we did. We determined this now gives Jake (4 years older than Noah) 6 years to get married…in order to secure a pattern among the brothers. Anyway, Nate decided not to have any of his brothers involved in the wedding, which was fine by Noah. So we were able to spend the rehearsal behind the scenes helping Noah’s mom with the final touches.
Saturday was the wedding day. I do believe that was the shortest wedding I have ever been to and could not have lasted more than 10 minutes. The weather could not have been nicer in Ojai, however. Temperatures hovered around 80*, so it was nice to be able to sit outside in a dress without bundling up in layers of sweaters and jackets.
After the reception, Noah and I headed to Simi to spend time with my bff Erin and her hubby…eating sinful brownies (they’re only sinful because they encourage gluttony) and staying up until 2am playing RockBand. Man that game is addictive! Especially the drums!
Sunday we went to our home church in CA, to lunch with friends, then hit Mervyn’s for some good old fashioned shopping. Mervyn’s was one of my favorite clothing stores while living in CA, so everytime we go back I make it a point to do a little shopping. Unfortunately, Sunday the chain announced that they were closing all of their stores. So I had to make the most out of what will be my last chance to ever shop there again. I got many a new clothing item, but am still a little sad. I don’t know what I’ll do if Kohl’s ever closes! After shopping we headed to the ‘Nard to see a friend’s new house, then back home for Mom’s yummy pot roast followed by a rip roaring (Aaron, our scorekeeper “cheated”) game of Shanghai Rummy with friends.
Monday before we flew out, we headed downtown for some thrift store shopping (I’m on the search for cowboy boots, preferably black to match my hat). I was successful in finding boots but the prices have sky-rocketed since the days I went to horse camp. For what used to cost $5 the thrift stores were now asking $50-$80!!! Um, no thank you. I came back to Colorado without the addition of another pair of shoes.
Now for 10 random thoughts on the trip…
1) Apparently a direct flight to Southwest means it’s okay to stop in Vegas or Phoenix as long as you don’t have to get off of the plane.
2) Going through a plane de-icing is a new experience and interesting to watch.
3) Getting free jewelry cleaner is nice…but it’s nicer when you can take it on the plane. Sadly, my container of cleaner is still sitting on the piano at my parent’s house.
4) We have great friends willing to get up early and go to bed late to cart us to/from airports.
5) A TSA agent at Burbank noticed my USAR shirt and decided to chat me up about rugby.
6) I much prefer flying in/out of Burbank to LAX…except for that whole lugging your luggage up the stairs bit.
7) Every time I fly out of CO I’m reminded just how lax TSA is at DIA.
8 ) The male flight attendant on our return flight has a good singing voice (seriously, he sang us two songs about how great Southwest is. One was to the tune of Mr. Sandman and the other was to When You Wish Upon a Star), he also knows French…kinda
9) For some reason I cant help but think about how “Southwest has great low fares” (the female flight attendant whispered the aforementioned phrase subliminally throughout the flight)
10) Colorado is even prettier than when I left…although while we were gone someone decided to dump leaves all over our back yard.
Not quite yet, but Noah will be turning the on the heater tonight. Neither one of us likes to get out of bed in the morning to a cold room…especially since nighttime temperatures have now dropped into the 30s. Plus it might snow this weekend (rain/snow showers), with highs in the 40s and lows in the 20s. Last night we also had our first frost advisory. I didn’t notice any on the ground when I left this morning…but we did cover the tomatoes just in case. It won’t be long before we have to turn off and clean out the sprinkler system.
In other news, a Lava story. On occasion, Lava will whine when the phone rings. Not sure why, she doesn’t do it all the time. She does do it more often when Noah is not home. Sometimes she even bellows. I’ve told Noah about it before, but Lava doesn’t do it when he’s in the house…even hiding in another room. Last night Noah was out helping friends and called the house. Lava whined/cried/carried on. It was funny. So I had my mom call the house to get Lava’s reaction to the phone on video. She gets really loud when she hears Noah’s voice on the answering machine. I have the video posted on my Facebook profile, but if you’re not on Facebook I also posted it on YouTube. You can check it out here.
If the last two years of living in Colorado are any indication, we are about a month out from our first snow. In preparation I have created the snow tally page for the 2008-2009 winter/snow season. Of course, there are no measurements yet, but be sure to check back throughout the winter.