Finally I sat down today and did my first pour. what fun !!! After I cleaned up my mess, I made tomorrows dinner in the crock pot, grabbed my purse and off we went shopping for tires and stuff. I needed a new shirt because I will be on a quaint NH TV show sometime soon and they are filming it this week. Fun huh ?? Anyway... We stopped at one tire place and they only wanted a mere $1200.00 for the tires etc.(besides the guy was a grumpy jerk) We said thanks, we'll think about it. We went to Sams Club and found some nice one's, Kevin gave in and we got them on the spot. So just over $600.00 later, we left with new tires on the Beast and he was happy. Now the truck isn't trying to pull off the road at every cliff and it handles so nice. Wow !! Nice day all in all. New tires, new resin stuff poured, waiting to be removed in the morning when it's hard. Life is good. Oh and I get Joey for a extra week. WooHoo !! :-)
I did see a couple of Robins last week- personally I think the poor things were lost and I thought maybe someone should buy them a GPS so they could find the south and the worms because all the worms here are in the deep freeze and a bit crunchy. Yummmm This photo is from before we got our last 9" this Wednesday. If the dogs got a hold of the snow shoes, they could step over their fence so now they have to be watched when they go out so we don't loose one. All you can see now is the top 3" of the fence and I hear there is more snow coming this week. I guess I might have to go shovel a mote or we will loose a dog.
as you can see by the last photo, it looked like we lived in a crystal palace. everything was shimmering and it was beautiful ! But, it only lasted a day or two that way and then it all melted. My sisters basement flooded with out her sump pump working because of the lack of electric. She had a foot of water in her basement so someone let them barrow a gas pump to get it out. what a mess. We went and drove around after the roads dried and it look like a tornado hit everywhere we went. Tree tops snapped of like twigs, telephone poles snapped with lines down every where you looked. We were one of the lucky few with a wood stove that has a cook top so we gathered up all our hurricane lanterns for the night and flashlights and made grilled ham and cheese sandwiches in foil on the stove with soup. we ate good and kept warm. Our only problem was a lack of wood and since Kevin is a bus driver, his checks stopped since there was now no school. The banks were all close and it took forever to find a working ATM to get what little we had, out of the bank. The stores couldn't accept debit cards since the banks were down and so were their machines. We went and picked up some trees that had been cut by someone clearing a road and dug some wood out of the snow that Kevin had cut in the spring. we did ok till the next Thursday when we heard a report of a foot of snow coming and then I lost it. The only wood we had left was in the back yard and would be buried. My parents had no way to heat their house so they ended up in a shelter by the next Thursday when they had enough of the cold. My sister was down with the stress of frustrated kids. We were lucky Joey was with his father so we spent the time catching up on our reading and I read 16 books. lol Kevin was wonderful as usual, he cut down trees at my parents house that had fallen on their wires so my father wouldn't have to do it or pay someone else to do it. He truly is a wonder to me with his upbeat attitude about everything and always had a smile even when everything was looking grim. the lights came back on Friday December 19 after 8 days of no power. The furnace didn't work right after that and Kevin had to fix that the next day after things started getting cold again. It was a adventure that's for sure. I have to say that it wasn't too bad cooking on the wood stove and read lots of books. Next time I will be more prepared with wood in the barn and my box of supplies in the pantry. I know better because it happens alot around here - just not usually that long. anyway, that's the joy of living in New Hampshire !! Lisa ( Kevin said I should say how I took those photos since the green leaves do look odd. It was taken through the window and the green is a plant in the house. lol )
they are male and female so maybe we will get lucky and have some ducklings to sell in the spring. Funny, I looked them up on line and it said they could fly very well. They weren't kidding ! I looked out the window last week to see one flying around the yard. I thought 'there she goes' but she flew back into the yard and then I clipped her wings so that won't be happening again ! Then Joey went out to see them and found these old beads in the pen and proceeded to put them on the chickens to wear. Don't all the chickens need a pair of beads to wear to their next outing ?? lol He had fun and we took the beads out when we were done dressing up the chickens. 
Oh one more photo... Joey had his Halloween party at school and then went to his fathers that night to trick or treat (and then they came to our town anyway even thought they live in another town) So I had to supply his costume for school and trick or treating this year. He wanted to be silly for school with orange hair and alot of bling on as well so that's what he got ! His cheeks are red as well since he had his flu shot that Wed. and had a red cheek reaction to it. I have to say that I stayed home that night and hid from trick or treaters that night because I was missing out on sharing it with Joey. There's always next year !! 
