COLD SNOW DAY

That early pinging sound on my phone sounded this morning and I didn't even have to look at it to know what it was saying as I had been up to go to the bathroom a couple hours early and saw the pouring snow and the already white covering on everything outside I knew schools were not opening today.
It was a good morning to snuggle down for a few more zzz's .
When we did get outside the snow was still falling and it looked like a winter wonderland out here with almost 4" of snow covering and clinging to everything.

The road below our house looks really treacherous this morning.

Hubbie got out the leaf blower and blew paths to the chicken pens and cleared some spaces in the yard for the dogs so they could get out of the snow.

The hens were not excited at all to come out of their warm houses even after I had shoveled some of the snow away from all the houses.

It stayed really cold about 19 degrees and blew snow for most of the day. My snow flowers bloomed today for sure !!!

And this photo was taken a little after noon and as you can see in the pic the snow was still coming down pretty hard.

Of course with school closed no one worked today except #2 son and Tif who delivered mail all day. Tif took this pic from the route she ran on Sugarloaf Mountain today.

I took the afternoon to go through all my old pics and papers to look for the 2018 decade memories for my monthly posts. 

I really needed to clean house but that is not a favorite snow day activity so that was put off until another day.

About mid afternoon hubbie and #1 son who get cabin fever easily took off to Ingles to get some things for a supper d-in-love was making us. There they go on the icy road.

EL, BB and AD braved the cold temps and had some fun in the snow.

I made a couple trips up to the chicken pens with hot water to make sure everything got a warm drink in the frigid weather.

The sun finally made an appearance late this afternoon and made for a lovely snowy sunset.

Look at that road down there , it looks exactly the same as it did this morning with no scraping or treatments of any kind today and hubbie and son said even the main roads were really bad when they went out this afternoon. This is the same spot for a pic this morning.

After all the chores were done and things were shut in their warm houses hubbie and I walked down to #1 son's house for potato soup and chili with cheese biscuits d-in-love made. It was really yummy and really hit the spot.

We met g-son's new tortoise that he got yesterday. This one came from a local reptile store and he was a really healthy looking little tortoise. It is a Red Footed Tortoise and grows slow.

This snow came with the "I" winter storm, Inga which swept across the country and today caused some snow cover in all 48 continental states.

Unfortunately Inga was a deadly storm in which 4 folks lost their lives as snow blanketed places in the south that very seldom ever get snow and made roads very slick.

Our area stayed under warnings all day and places more south and east of us got more snow than our 4 inches.

As hubbie and I walked back to the house tonight the snow made the night light up as if it were daylight. I love walking at night in the snow, it feels magical but tonight was a very cold night to be out at 12 degrees already at 8:30,  it made our faces hurt by the time we got inside our house. It was nice to stoke up the fires in both wood stoves and kick back for the evening with another lazy morning on the menu as schools are closed again and the teachers and employees aren't to come in until after 10am so they can get some of the ice and snow from around the schools.

Thankful for the blessings of this day and for the wonderful blanket of pure white that covered the earth around here today and made all things seem so quiet and calm.

God Bless and Good Night.