Blizzard!

Here's a picture of Nick shoveling snow in our driveway, on December 27th. On the 26th, the snow started around 10 a.m. and was still going early the next morning. It was a good day to just stay inside!

We had an average on Long Island of about 20 inches, but the drifts were as high as five feet! All you could hear all night was the wind howling.

Our backyard animals are our little friends, and Mike was nice enough not only to shovel a little area on the deck for them, he also bought two big bags of seeds! There were five male cardinals and 3 females out there this morning. There's nothing prettier in winter than a red cardinal on white snow. Of course, we also had blue jays and woodpeckers, wrens and more of the usual suspects. Poor things were probably starving as there was no way they could get out for food yesterday.

Haven't seen our skwerlies yet, but I'm sure they will show up.

Right now the sky is blue, but the temp is 29 and there is a still a winter weather advisory. And I'm off from work tonight, woo-hoo!