Please Don't Eat the Yellow Snow.....

Camouflage!

....cause that's where the Huskies go!  LOL  McGee has found the joy of yellow snow.

We had snow again last night.  Started out with a light misty rain, then the sleet came.  When the streets were wet enough the temperatures cooperated and plunged to the upper teens.  Then the snow mixed in with the sleet and we had intermittent floating bits of snow and the heavier sleet particles.



This morning we woke to a white blanket of what is more like ice crystals than the fluffy snow of the last snowfall.  I guess people who live in snowy places have names for all the types of snow.  We just are amazed at snow...period!

Keep in mind, we are in South Louisiana!






And all on my BIRTHDAY!  I had big plans for the day, most of which is up in the air as to whether it will happen. 











Frank revealed the final gift of the Birthday Week Celebration.


Cheetos! Literally, my favorite food! 
I shall partake later today.

And of course with the snow and interstate shutdowns, the city has cancelled the huge celebration and parades they were going to hold for my birthday. 

I did play with the scraps in the bag Judy gave me.  I am going to have to come up with a name, or even a nickname for them.

I added leftover solids from Sawyer's quilt so the color distribution will be a bit wider.  However I do not have the yellows from that top right block.  I might have to dig a bit further in my stash to grab some of those sunny colors.  But I think I will wait to see how the other blocks play together to see if I want to dump it, make more or use it as a focus block somewhere in the quilt.

I am glad that you want a turquoise added in the La Virgencita.  She has a turquoise blue dress that I toyed with pulling out.  But the colors looked so warm I decided not to throw a cool blast in there.  I will do that today and retake the photo. 




At night I am sleeping under an additional quilt.  The colorful one is from my mates of SSOBB during the flood.  It was quilted by Valerie Purple Boots in Nova Scotia.  And the leaf quilt is appropriately named The Forest of Frozen Sorrows.

I had it packed to finish it at a February Retreat a few years ago when the temps dropped so low that the pipes at the Retreat House broke and flooded the place.  We had to cancel the Retreat of course.

Hence Frozen Sorrows.  It is one of my visual favorites. 

Sneaux Day Part Deux

The Cox Cable Guy was scheduled to come today.  With everything closed, we figured he was going to sleep in.  To my surprise he showed up and is working on figuring out why 3 of my remotes don't work.

Keep in mind, we are in Baton Rouge, LA - the Deep South!  And the entire city is shut down!  We get snow about every 10 years or so, last one was 2008 when we had 4 inches.  Generally it doesn't stay long, maybe a few hours or so, before it turns to rain.  This year it seems to be sticking!

Dogs seemed to enjoy the white yard.

 My father made this sundial as a replica of the one in front of the Mississippi Rest Center along I-10.

My azaleas are blooming, in the snow.

The view into the back behind our houses is beautiful, like a post card.

The snow is coming down pretty heavily.  This is Dale and Barb's house next door.

The front of my house at about 7 am this morning, love the illumination  on that flag.

The view down my driveway, crape myrtles make a green tunnel in the summer time.

I am standing on my porch looking down Hollow Tree Ridge.  Such a beautiful sight!

They say it will snow all afternoon too.  Unprecedented!

Go Sneaux!

SNEAUX

Yes, that is snow in Cajun Country!

This is what we look like this morning at 6:30 AM.

Ohhhh!  Sorry.  That is the mendenhall glacier in Alaska........it is hard to tell us apart.



Here is Baton Rouge Sneaux!

As it is getting lighter the flakes are getting larger.  They are predicting abour 4 inches this morning.

Of course, the entire city shuts down.  Yesterday they cancelled school and government offices at the suggestion we would have snow.

The last time they thought we would have snow was last year when I was living in the Camper From Hell.



 The last time we actually had snow was 2008 when we had 4.5 inches.  It was Christmas Eve.

We had gone to Carrie's for present opening and were walking the dogs around the block.  I had my two beautiful Swissys, Bonnie Doon and Dutch, and Chloe.

Dutch was not impressed with the snow, even though he came from a long line of alpine dogs who were bred to herd and draft in the Alps with the nomadic shepherds.

Bonnie Doon on the other hand, loved to be cold.  She is buried n the far corner of my back yard, and loving the snow.  My most favorite picture of Bonnie Doon is of her standing back there while the snow is all over her strong black back.

MGee seems totally unimpressed with the weather, which he considers to be an extension of rain.  He doesn't get his feet wet.  DiNozzo went out, slipped on the icy stepping stones, and sniffed the white stuff.