THE LAST MOVING AND CLEANING OF DAUGHTER'S HOUSE

Extra sleep this cold morning felt good as hubbie and I both are getting spoiled with these leisurely quiet mornings.
Although schools are closed today and it is an optional workday they asked employees not to come to work before 10am to give them time to clear some of the ice around the schools.
We did chores on another 11 degree freezing morning but thankfully the wind has calmed down. Overnight wind gust put ripples in the snow.

This scene doesn't look any different than it did yesterday morning and neither does the road which still looks like a sled run.

#1 son didn't work today , there isn't much grading work to be done with all this snow and ice on the ground so he stayed home with his 2 kids while d-in-love went to work at the elementary school.
Daughter was afraid to try it out our road so she took IR to school with her in hopes IR would take a nice nap so she could get some work done.
This is going up our road to the high school.

And this was the entrance to the school, thankfully she made it okay with her all-wheel drive.

Hubbie and I spent the morning doing housework here. I advertised the 7 roosters from the late Fall hatch and with the bad weather haven't had much interest but today a man called and wanted all of them. I told him it would be better to come after them Saturday but he insisted on coming today.
He only made it half way up the driveway so hubbie and I caught them and took them down to meet him in hubbie's truck.
At least they are gone and I don't have to worry about someone being here on Saturday to deal with it.
We ate lunch then got ready to head over to daughter's house to begin the last of the moving and cleaning. Her closing is tomorrow at 2pm.
The sun is shining brightly and it has just got above the freezing point to 33 degrees as we started out.
The roads are still very icy and I decided to park my Honda up at the church on the road her house is on until we saw how bad the curves were on the road. As we approached the curves we saw a couple trucks stop to take them out of 4-wheel drive so we knew it must be bad. Hubbie put his in 4-wheel and we eased around a wrecker that was pulling a truck from the ditch in one of the curves and we made it, whew!!!
Thankfully most of her driveway gets morning sun and had the snow melted off it but hubbie had brought a shovel just in case he needed it and he had to shovel the snow away from the garage doors so we wouldn't slip and fall going in and out.

Daughter got off work early and came in right behind us and thankfully IR decided to take a good nap and let us all work.  Son-in-love also got off work early and was there to help.

All four of us worked from 2:00 until 4:45 to get everything out and the house cleaned. It looks really good for the walk through in the morning at 11am.

It was kind of sad to see it sell but after the icy road getting to it I am glad for them to move closer to work and get off that hill.
Now I pray that God's will be done in their next house hunt.
When hubbie and I got home it was a late chore time again. As we were doing the chores we turned Rocky, Tif's dog out of his lot for his daily run and today he looked like a possessed dog and took off in a flash and wouldn't heed any of our calls and whistles as he usually does.
We hurriedly finished out chores  and then walked around the farm calling and looking for him until well after dark finding no signs at all of him. It was as if he had disappeared.
We came inside and called all the neighbors but no one had seen him which is really weird.
He does have a tag on him with #2 son's phone number on it so hopefully someone will find him and call. Also we will try to track him in the morning in the snow to see which direction he went.
Hubbie and I are both really pooped tonight but are happy everything worked out and prayerfully the closing will go as scheduled tomorrow.
We watched a NC State / Wake Forest basketball game which State won and then headed for bed.
Thankful for the blessings of safe travel for everyone today and for the never ending love and care of a Wonderful Savior.
God Bless and Good Night.

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.

BUSY MOVING DAY AND WAITING ON THE SNOW

Up to greet g-daughter IR only this morning as RL is headed to the doctor this morning to have a flu test as she has ran a fever all night. Hubbie left early to pick up g-son and get him to school at 7:30 so d-in-love wouldn't have to drag RL out in the cold early morning.
When he got back I went outside to get the chores done. No broken windows or anything out of the normal today thankfully.
I had breakfast when I came inside then fed IR her fruit and cereal and bottle before we got ready to head over to daughters to clean up outside her house. She loves plants and flowers and has plenty of pots and containers all around that had to be brought here. It'll be interesting to see what plants come back in some of the pots this spring.
We worked until lunchtime and had hubbie's truck packed full .
We came home and we all had lunch. IR is so good and sat in my car while we worked just watching us walk back and forth.
Hubbie went up and unloaded his truck of all the outside stuff and we headed back over to her house. Since they are predicting snow starting sometime this afternoon or evening we are in a time warp now to get all this moved and cleaned up.
We packed up the things I knew where they went then I cleaned in the kitchen cabinets, stove, microwave and refrigerator while IR sat in her bouncy seat and cheered me on !!
She acted like she was happy to be home, poor little thing , it'll take her a while to adjust to a new home but as long as mommy and daddy are there she'll be fine.
Daughter came in from school and we really made progress as son-in-love's brother Ben and his wife and daughter came to help. We loaded hubbie's truck once again as hubbie and Ben put the old extra refrigerator in the bed to be hauled to the metal buyer when we get a chance and filled the inside full of things to go to her apartment . We also filled her car full of apartment things and my car full of storage stuff. We have a few things left but one more trip should take care of it and then it will need to be cleaned before Friday.
The weather wizards keep upping the total for the snow in our area which makes me very nervous as they surely haven't done a good job of getting things right this winter with these storms. The last time they predicted this amount of snow back in December we got 12 inches !!!!

This doesn't look like a lot of snow but with the cold temps we have had all week every flake that falls will accumulate on the ground and with lows in the mid teens tonight and the high around 20 degrees tomorrow there certainly won't be any melting.
It's going to be interesting to see if they get this one right. The latest news is that the speed of the storm has slowed making accumulation totals go up.
I got home from daughter's with just enough time to get chores done before dark for the second day in a row . Thankfully with the 40 degree high today the water wasn't frozen this evening.
Just as I let Rocky, Tif's dog out for his daily run hubbie made it home after going by daughter's apartment and unloading all the stuff she wanted there.
We got all the outside things finished and I stopped before coming back inside to see how the air felt. To me it doesn't really feel like snow except for the eerie quietness of the evening.
D-in-love had music practice tonight and #1 son had a meeting at church so both  RL and g-son came up to keep us company while they were gone.
I am so glad this sweetie pie doesn't have the flu , only a respiratory virus.

Each time I look at g-son he seems to look more and more like a teenager. He is really going to be a handsome guy with that dark hair and his blue eyes.

After d-in-love picked them up hubbie and I watched the second half of the UNC / Clemson basketball game which UNC won in a very good game and it continued UNC's streak of victories over Clemson at UNC to 59 and keeping Clemson from ever beating them at home.

It's been a long ,busy day and I am ready for a hot bath and an early bedtime.

Thankful for a wonderful busy but blessed day and for the grace God extends to me each day.

God Bless and Good Night

MORE MOVING AND HAPPY 3rd BIRTHDAY TO BB

Got to sleep until 8am this Monday morning as schools are closed for Martin Luther King's birthday.
Funny how there is always something to do on a farm, even a small scaled down farm like ours. I went into my older hens lot to give them water and feed and met one of the hens already out in the lot. As I searched my mind to figure out how I would have shut her out of the house last night I found the answer when I opened the house door and saw the lower window glass busted out.

All the glass was inside the house leading me to believe that something hit the window from outside. Maybe an owl or early morning hawk saw the hens sitting on the roosting pole just inside the window and broke it out, who knows ??  Thankfully all the hens were there and no one was hurt by the flying glass it seemed. I cleaned it up and hubbie came out and nailed a board up over the broken window.
After the girls both got here we all had breakfast together then they watched cartoons with hubbie while I got weekly laundry started.

The day is at least sunny and getting into the upper 30's this afternoon to help thaw things out.

I did 3 loads of laundry and then we had lunch. 

RL went to sleep for a good nap after we ate and daughter came in to feed IR .

When RL woke up the girls were playing and daughter captured this pic as IR looks like she isn't sure about the driving skills of RL !!!!

We headed over to daughter's house to move more things and were met by #2 son with his truck . We worked over there for about an hour . D-in-love also came over to help after school and g-son took care of IR.

He loves her so much !!!

I didn't get much done because RL just wanted me to hold her. I think she is getting sick and after her mom picked her up and they got home and she crawled up on their bed and went to sleep I'm sure she has something going on.

I left daughter's at 5:30 and rushed home to feed the animals and shut them all up for another cold night. The sunset was really pretty with the clouds coming in with the front that is supposed to deliver us some snow sometime late tomorrow.

I then headed over to Aa and Re's house to help celebrate BB's 3rd birthday, how is that possible ???

He couldn't wait to dig into his "cowboy" cake !!

And open all the presents !!!!

Happy #3 BB  !!!

I came home to find hubbie here and unloading more stuff to store for daughter. 

We watched a Duke/ Miami basketball game which Duke won and rested for the evening.

Thankful for the blessings of this day and praying for health for hubbie and I to keep going through all the sickness that is going around right now.

Thankful for a gracious , loving wonderful Savior to take all my concerns too.

God Bless and Good Night