I've figured out my funk! But knowing the reason is probably worse!

As some of you know, I'm pretty much the only female in a house full of testosterone. And a couple of wanna-be testoterone filled boys.

I walked through the house last night and I was assailed by various 'aromas'.



The first one was fairly mild. The trash needed to be taken out.



Then I ran across the dog. He really needs a bath.



The various thrown about socks here and there left their own little clouds of olfactory gifts in the air as well.



My husband's shoes about drove me out of the family room. The cat should have followed me.



Although the cat has her own issues to add to this.



I don't even want to talk about the bathroom and my boy's inability to turn just their heads while peeing. Think about that one for a sec.



I think I'm going to take over the guest room and fill it with sweet candles and lavender scented sheets and my laptop and my Kindle and my crafts. I wonder if I can get my meals delivered?

I'm Not Sure I Survived the Blizzard!

Is there anybody out there? Just nod if you can hear me now. Is there anyone at all?

Or at least..anyone that can legally buy alcohol?

Someone who isn't a....


wild and crazy kid?



I think I've been snowed in too long. I have my internet back now so there is a glimmer of hope that my mind will return. I hope.

Snowed in and Low on my Wine!

Here's hoping that my internet stays up long enough to post this. It's been really slow and spotty today. Can't imagine why. Oh..I'm low on wine also, please send one of these. Pronto.

Words can't even describe this. We received an official 28 inches I believe and the drifts...well see for yourself.


Remember that table in the backyard? Here it is as a reminder. Yes that is a Skull on there, wanna make sumpin of it? Bwahahaha.


Table? What table? We don't need to stinkin' table! Those arches there? That's the top of the firewood holder thingie. You can see it in the first photo.


Here's the 6 ft. fence, drifted nicely in front and up. Just thought that looks kinda weird and is my bet where the boys will start building their fort.


Remember those bikes that the boys never got put up? Bikes? What bikes? I can't even get out the front door much less worry about bikes!


Since I can't get out the door, here's a window view of the driveway. Yeah, that's my new van that's peeking outta the snow there. Da Man's van is totally covered over.

Here's part 2 now..since the internet was down and I couldn't get anything done! I just 'bout died. I never want to go through that again. Never.


Da Man shoveled us out at least to the street so we don't feel quite so isolated. Magnet helped hold the sides up.


Here's a view of the neighbor's house. Don't ya like how the drift almost reaches the roofline? Yeah. Thought you would.


And finally, the path to the front door. This definitely goes down as the Blizzard of '09.


Just make sure that you don't forget this guy. Please.

Snow Storm Update! Whoa!

Grab some hot chocolate, bundle up in your favorite blanket and look what is going on now!

Just a few short hours ago, this is what we had. And now..this! It's getting hard to even see out there. I'm sure glad I don't have to try to drive in this stuff!


That nice little garden light...yeah, presto chango..and it's disappeared! BTW, that's a 36 inch T-ruler to that means that drift is ummm, someone do the math. It's deep is what it is! Heh. (You can click to make the pictures really big!)

Magnet decided to venture into the back yard to work on a snow fort. Snow fort in Magnet speech means "I'm going to track all over the yard and get as covered in snow as I possibly can so that I can come back in all frozen and melt all over the house while loudly demanding that you make me some hot chocolate with extra marshmallows."

Yeah, he's really learned how to condense down all of that in just two little words. Snow Fort.

He's going to be one of those strong, silent types.

Can't Buh-lieve What I'll do to Blog!

Okay, I admit that I'm officially nuts, fried, cooked, turn me over I'm done. I went OUTSIDE in this cold, blowing snow and took pictures just for you. My wonderful blog family.


This is an overview of the on-going snowstorm here just looking out my front door towards the park. I hope all of you also have a couple of bicycles dumped in your front yard that weren't picked up by your children that claimed to take care of their bikes 'forever'. The wind is actually keeping a fair bit of it off the street. It's actually coming down pretty good right now, the picture just isn't really showing it.


Because, a lot of it is blowing up to my front door. Yes, I had to slog through a bit of this drift so I could show you my garden light and using a big T-ruler thingie I found to show a nice 12" drift. I searched for a regular ruler, they have apparently all been abducted by aliens.


Here's the back yard. Everyone has an old skull, sticks, stones and pop cans sitting on their patio tables right? Uhh...WHAT was that?


Yeah, it's a skull. With a stick for whittling around it. I did mention I'm the only female living full-time in a house of boys right? Pray for me.

I'll post some more pics of these same areas as it keeps coming in. We are still supposed to be getting 12" total and I don't think we're even close to that yet.