A Girl Named Timi

Let Marriage

Test 2008 Begin!

Here in Western Washington we are under a blank of snow and ice. This started last Saturday with a light dusting then freezing. A week before Christmas and we are being held somewhat hostage by a wet white nuisance called snow! Here at The House of B's we live on a hill, so with bad weather it's sometimes a bit difficult to go anywhere. We also lose power often, we have not gotten our Christmas shopping done, and..........The Hubs has been trying to work from home all week. It's truly a marriage test.

We had Marriage Test 2006 when we had an ice and snow storm and lost power for 3 days and then were snowed in 5 more days. That was truly a test. This is a cake walk so far.

This is what we woke up to this morning

The back side of our house
The deck
I could barley get the doors open to take the pictures because of all the snow.

My Snow Bitch!
The Hubs was getting ready to clear the satellite dish. Our TV stops working when there is too much snow or ice on the satellite. It's The Hubs job to go out and brush it off when needed. He's still trying to figure out how that got to be his job. I figured since he was dressed and out there he might as well clear the walk way too. It's his job too.

We got our mailbox hit on Sunday by some kids screwing around in 4 wheel drives. This is the 2nd time this year it's been hit. The first time was by the mailman during the summer. When I saw it laying in the ditch on Sunday I was thinking "FINALLY!" "I get a new fancy wrought iron mailbox!" The Hubs went out and put it back up. DAMN!

I'm praying the same kids start screwing around and hit it again causing a fatal blow.

The front of our property from the road.

Up the roadDown the road

Across the street

Charlie loves the snow. He puts his nose down and runs like a snow plow.

A double batch of Orange Cranberry Scones

So what did I do today besides laundry, cleaning, and trying to get what Christmas gifts I do have wrapped? I baked. Orange Cranberry Scones. I also made some Eggnog cookies for the first time. They have to refrigerate so I'll have to bake those tomorrow.

Around 2 pm I couldn't take it anymore! I needed to get out of this house. After 2 days of not leaving it was time

I begged The Hubs to take me to town.

The Hubs: "why do you need to go to town?"

Me: "I need to go to the post office and grocery store"

The Hubs: "it can't wait for a couple days?"

Me: "No I need to go right now"

The Hubs: "I'll go start the truck but whatever it is you need it better be critical to your existence!"

Me: "oh it is!"

So very slowly we made our way to town

Our road out to highway

This is our road out to the highway. Very hilly with lots of turns and big ditches.

The freeway in to town.

It was pretty good when we went in to town but as it got dark all that nice clear wet blacktop started turning to ice. The Hubs slipped in the parking lot at the store and landed right on his butt under the truck. It was at that point I kind of felt bad about my "critical to life " items I had in my bags.

This was my "critical to life" purchases

Bananas, bitter sweet chocolate, eggs, whipping cream, cookie cutters and some shave cream. If I'm going to be trapped in the house I might as well get some baking done and get a good shave on my legs right? These items are critical to my staying sane while we are in the middle of Marriage Test 2008

The Snow Bitch at it again

When we got home The Hubs decided if it was going to freeze tonight he better get out and start shoveling again. Since we had been gone it had snowed some more and covered the walks again.

Tomorrow..................more fakebusy to keep from going insane.

****UPDATE*****

Linda over at Royal Touch just sent me a link to what she has been doing all day while snow bound. Apparently she has been in couped up longer then myself.

This is damn funny!