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I have never been so happy to see Friday.
What’s everyone doing this weekend?
Work. Have to get ready for the big show on Christmas Eve.
Then on to planning New Year’s Eve party. You?
We’re battening down the hatches for the big snow, coming shortly. I’ve got the sled ready!
Unfortunately, the school district did robocalls at 5:15 am (gasp!) telling us that the schools were closed today.
Seems like email would be a more humane way of doing it.
Enjoy the snow!
Thanks SN. E-mails would be the way to go. Are you getting any of this weather?
We’ve had misty, gray, foggy weather for almost a week now, but it’s pretty warm. I’m really ready for some sunshine.
It has not started here yet, but I sense we’ll have an interesting commute back home today (for those who drive).
Only 40 or so miles north of you and we’re supposed to get up to a foot.
Ouch!
Well, it has started snowing now, very light so far – forecast mentions 4-6″ here.
Crow – it’s what’s for lunch in Minnesota.
This is fun
Fun indeed!
Yes, Luna is pregnant. Yesterday we had her ultrasounded at the vet. At least four small (3/4inch) embryos were visible in a narrow scan. She’ll go back for another ultrasound in two weeks, as which point the pups will have skeletons and be easier to distinguish one from another. Even so, it’s hard to get the count right. I’m guessing that there’s eight.
She’s got a bit of morning sickness this week and won’t eat before the afternoon/evening. At which point she gets several servings of raw Wallaby meat because that’s all she’ll eat at the moment.
That’s so exciting!
The perfect Hanukkah present. 🙂
Wallaby meat? That’s so weird….I craved the exact same thing with all four pregnancies!
Yeah, that’s pretty weird . . . . Uh, had you actually heard of wallaby back then. I find a surprising amount of people don’t know what a wallaby is. Even here, most rural people call wallaby “roo” and a Pademelon a “wallaby”.
Australians like to joke about how we are the only people who eat our national emblems (a kangaroo and an emu flank the national seal). We even feed them to our dogs.
How exciting! Congratulations!
I’ve never seen them in moss before.
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Kewl. I’d never seen one at all until I saw your photos.
It’s bedtime here (10:18pm). Have a good one all.
Good night. Happy dreams of fluffy puppies.
Nice photos! I remember seeing them in the woods as a little kid. They were in what was then called Lilly Woods, up on Bear Wallow Hill. I thought then the area was named for some kind of woods lily, not knowing the forest belonged to the drug company in Indy. I think the state later acquired the property and added it to Yellowwood State Forest.
There’s an old state fire watch tower that I think might still be there, although it was in bad shape even then. The wooden stairs were rotten, so we climbed up the braces for the view from the top. Our moms would not have been pleased, had they known what we’d been up to.
I’ve never seen them at all before this. I’d be curious to know what sort of weather conditions created them???
Hi NDD, long time no see. Are you keeping warm up there?
Yah, you betcha!
I just have to add another log to the fire a little more often these last few days.
Good to see you’re still hanging about BT.
Have the squirrels been staying out of your way? 🙂
I think Andif left this frost flower facts link from a previous frost flower photo posting.
Thanks, I’ll go check on it now.
That was certainly an interesting read.
Great to “see” you here.
If you want to see some more frost flowers (I never get tired of taking pictures of them so warning, there are quite a few pictures), you can see some a lot more frost flowers here.
Look out all you east coasters!
We’re being warned of a nasty wind chill overnight and tomorrow; 20, feeling like 0.
Its quite breezy and bitter cold here, as you can see. I pulled the text from one of the Indy TV Stations.
I see it – and shudder at the thought.
Young asklet would say: ‘Sweet!’ He seems to be into extremes these days and likes experiencing them. He loved the ice storm last week.
I always would dread weather like this when on call at the fire dept., knowing we might be out all night working in it. Its especially challenging with soaked, then frozen protective equipment. I could sometimes relax almost completely, yet remain standing, since my coat & pants were frozen solid. Yes, I understand the love of extremes very well & at my stage of “maturity” am just (of necessity) getting over it;-)
Like Family Man, I’m beginning to appreciate the fine art of napping.
Hey compared to you – we’re having a heat wave at 9 degrees and we only feel like negative 13. 🙂
I’ve been baking cookies though so that kept me warm.
Bebo wants to come live with you. She wasn’t real thrilled with having to stay outside while we stuffed our faces up in Indy.
Poor Bebo – outside in this weather!
How was the kugel?
Bebo’s sentiments exactly.
It was good, perfect crunchy crust. Everything was good — especially my mom’s brisket, Shapiro’s (great Indy deli) pastrami, tongue, and corned beef, my sister’s spinach balls, our friend Alex’s wonderful cucumber salad. Sigh, I ate way too much.
heh pictures!!
yum. It all sounds great. Well, except that I’ve never had tongue and I’ve never been sure I would like it. But the rest sounds wonderful. Too bad it’s so cold – a walk after all that would have been good.
Were you in Cincy? How was the drive?
Nope, Indy. Drive was very windy but the worst part was getting out of the car.
Tongue is very good. Jim had never had any before we got married and he loves it.
Well, someday I’ll have to try it.
I’m glad you’re both home safe – tonight was not a night to be caught out on the road with trouble.
Here are some of the oatmeal raisin cookies I made today:
Mmm, cookies. I made some butter pecan crescents today in honor of my grandmother. I’m hoping they’ll last til Christmas.
Are all the kids going to be there for Christmas?
Yep, though some of them have to work they’ll all be here with me at one time or another.
Ah, that’s good — so not only will you have the kids around to make you happy, they’ll undoubtedly bring you some of that nice young flesh to drool over. 😉
Yum, I haven’t had homemade butter pecan cookies in years.
Your cookies look yummy. Did you bake them for a family celebration?
For Christmas. My Aunt and Uncle have Christmas and everyone brings cookies. They do decorated cookies so we do non-decorated.
We all the cookies home with my mother so they would last until Christmas 🙂
um, that would be “SENT” them home with my mom.
Either way I’m impressed with what good, responsible children your mother has raised. 🙂
You should be impressed by my mother’s willpower. And my dad’s come to think of it.
I guess it is very emphatically winter. Yuck.
Even the sky looks cold (shot through the window driving home along I-65)
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