no more, please

One foot of snow fell today. I could only shovel this much off the driveway before Dennis told me to give up and forget it. It's heavy wet snow and difficult to lift. We have had 42 inches of snow in the last 2 1/2 weeks. We are sick of it. Dennis wants to move off Nuthatch Hill.

Merry Christmas

Ho Ho Ho!

snowfall

Some say it's pretty, but snow sure is a lot of work.  Dennis' snowplow is too small to push the snow that fell yesterday and the day before so we had to call in the professionals. Unfortunately, he came at night and even though he's been here before, he still managed to slip off our road (which he did 3 years ago as well). On the lower left edge of this picture you can see fir boughs laying in the snow. The driver of the big plow ended up with his rig wedged against one of our trees and the only option was to cut the tree down. His boss doesn't like him to come up and do this job because of the previous incident and when I heard he slipped off the road again, I thought it was a joke. It wasn't a joke for the tree.

Little Cali enjoying the snow.

New puppy on the Hill

He doesn't belong to us. Our neighbor, Steve, brought little Klancy over yesterday afternoon. He's not quite 4 weeks old. Cali wasn't too sure about him. He didn't act like a dog.

Brrr

With temps below zero everyday this week, Cali has to wear her Muttluks on the snow. It's always good for a laugh for us. 

bye bye fall...

...hello winter.

It's currently 9.9 degrees and falling. Is it too early to wish for spring?

more cake

I made a lot of homemade ice cream this summer and froze all the egg whites that were left over, so I thought an angel food cake would be a good use of them. This also uses some of my dad's Meyer lemons both in the cake and the glaze. 

Meyer lemon cakes

I got into the box of Meyers today. I decided to make Meyer lemon pound cake. I had some juice left over after making the lemon syrup so I think that might have to be used in a  Meyer lemon martini.

Here the cakes are cooling after having the lemon syrup poured on top. They got a little brown on the edges, but I'm using the cakes for trifle so it's no biggie.

P.S. Still no snow!!

A box of CA sunshine

A shipment of Meyer lemons from Dad. This should keep me busy for a while.

Thanks, Dad. I love it!!!