Boots and beach towels

Our beach towels get a second life come snow time.  I place them around all the doors. They make such great snow catchers.  It makes me smile to remember the sunny beaches we have used them on as I stomp snow onto them in the winter.  It's nice to have multipurpose uses for things.  We have made very good use of these towels during this storm.  We have shoveled and shoveled and then went back to shovel some more.  This is the first storm I've wished we had a snowblower.  A visit to Home Depot may be in our future if we can ever get out of our neighborhood.  I'm positive we will never see snow again but after all the shoveling I think I may be willing to take that chance.

This is a picture of the last time we shoveled on Saturday night.  I'm wearing my daughter's soccer stadium jacket.  It is soooo warm!  This was not the last time we shoveled.  We were back at it Sunday morning.  I'm not really complaining.  I do like snow.  We didn't lose our electricity and we have plenty of food.  I'd say we rode out the storm very well.

I don't think we will see the mailperson anytime soon : )

I went for a walk this morning.  This is the view from the entrance of our street, so far no snowplow.

There weren't many snowmen to be seen.  The snow cat was too cute.  I guess it's hard to build a snowman when the snow is up to most kids waists.  There has been some sledding.

Our kitties have been snuggled up on my chair.  Bru found a little sun to warm up his paws.

I haven't crafted as much as I though I would.  The shoveling has been rather exhausting.  I have my next row of granny squares ready to stitch together.  I'll post a picture next time. I have been slowly working on the felt snowmen.  I am getting better with the blanket stitch.  I watched a tutorial and it was a huge help.  Sometimes I feel like the slowest crafter ever but I am making progress.

We will be making some chocolate chip cookies this afternoon.  It will be interesting to see when the snowplow arrives.