For all you SH readers who miss the chill of Christmas in December…
Will do an update around noon time!
As promised… and certainly there were many of you who were waiting for the update… the new(er) video of the first snow after Christmas 2012!
How do the birds know that there is a bird feeder way up in the sky? Did one bird accidentally bump into the bird feeder one day while moseying around on its way to warmer climes? BOINK! What the hell was that! Oh, this thing has food for us!
Did that one bird send out messages to his other birds traveling with him to git on over to a specific latitude and longitude ’cause there’s free food hangin’ suspiciously from a tree high up in the air? ”Suspiciously” … ’cause in a bird’s tiny brain, it would cause suspicion!
How could there be bird food high enough for us birds who are just flyin’ around … la-di-da, la-di-da, la-di-da… mindin’ our own business, just flyin’ and tryin’ to git to a place which is warm? How could that be? Us birds are “suspicious” … but, hey, it’s free food!
Eat up, guys!!!
I’m jealous!!! We usually get snow where I live, but not much so far this year. Fingers crossed…
Where is this? Reminds me of my 20 yrs living in Mn. Live in St Pete Fl now but miss that snow!
Thanks Ms. SH for the live video!
Yeah, we actually got a little snow in Ala today. Very rare. & none of the weather guys called it.
So beautiful!
Oh my, I better look outside and see what my weather is like here in Florida. It’s 75 degrees and sunny. Too bad, so sad, ha ha ha. And I never have to go to work again!
Miles: Shut up! LOL!! Didja haveta put your yacht in there, too? Damn… TFC!! SH
Nice Miles.No wonder you are in such a good mood all the time. For some reason watching your video I get a hankerin for coconut shrimp.
We got a ground cover late afternoon Dec 25 here in NW Arkansas. Love it! Winter is my favorite season.
Good things about a cold winter.
You don’t have to do yardwork.
Frozen dog poop doesn’t stick to your shoes.
Your does pee’s really fast so, he can come back in the house.
Using the fireplace is functional.
You can leave your groceries in the car until you feel like unloading them.
You can take your fur out of storage and wear the dang thing.
Ice skating outdoors.
Making a snow man (if you move the eyes and nose to a different level it can be quite shocking!)
Snow balls and being able to smack your loved ones with one and it considered fun not aggressive.
Snuggling and sharing body heat with someone you love.
Knowing your kids aren’t roaming the streets getting in trouble (because it’s too freaking cold.)
Hot chocolate with a shot of Baily’s becomes a gift from god.
No mosquitoes.
Winter makes the spring and summer so much better because you know to enjoy it while you can.
I’m sure there more.
gosh I do miss all those things and more cyn!
And you should. It’s funny when I moved here I had no Idea that snow stayed on the ground and got taller and taller. I thought a snow blower was a fan that you put in your driveway. I remember bring snow for show and tell at school.
I forgot the best one. Body fat has a purpose !!!!!!!
“body fat has a purpose” LOL Yeah and you can cover it with bulky clothes to look stylish instead of FAT!
Try doing that in Florida. Take that Miles.
Lol cyn good ones! I have three doggies and the frozen poop and quick tinkles are advantageous along with leaving the groceries in the trunk…
Ms. SH Happy Healthy New Year to you all your family and staff. Thanks again for all the hard work related to the awesome website.
Hope all the posters have a safe New Year’s Eve and a happy healthy 2013 to all!
Try doing what? Being fat or wearing bulky clothes?
Awe, I would love to see snow. I also live in FL. I remember when I was in first grade it actually snowed here. We were all excited and ran outside to play but it melted as soon as it hit the ground but it did make the front page of the Miami Herald that it snowed. http://miami.cbslocal.com/2012/01/19/35-years-ago-today-snow-in-miami/
I live in Los Angeles, so I can relate.
I bet its pretty there year round. Least yall don’t have to deal with stuff like this
Can you imagine in that famous LA traffic shenanigans like this?
OMgosh! LA drivers have trouble enough in the rain. It would be a total disaster in the snow!
I go up to Mammoth for big powder days, and it is SCARY driving through Cajon pass when a big storm comes through. People have no clue. People wonder why I drive one of the largest SUVS on the road- protection.
I hear you, Kimpton. I cringe whenever I see someone driving one of those little tiny cars.
Nothing here yet, suppose to get a mix ending in rain.
going to tahoe this weekend..can’t wait! it has been snowing like the dickens here for weeks.
I just love snow. I grew up at the beach, and I have to say that I love a change of seasons..it is beautiful, makes you appreciate the sun and summer, and gives variety. I also love to get out some agression with a great snow ball fight and say it was just all in good fun. I would love to be in a snow ball fight with Face morphed faye. Hot apple pies (tuaca and hot apple cider) are my favs.
Love this! We’re getting hammered now – Hazleton PA – sooooooooo beautiful!!!!!!! Since we border the Pocono Mts we will see 8-10 inches by the morning.
I swear your backyard looks a LOT like the mountains here…
NW Jersey here. We already have about 6″ on the ground. Supposed to get 10+. Will go with bf tonight to plow out some friends. We also had snow on Christmas Eve so Christmas morning we had enough just to cover the grass and make it white. Loved it! If I’m going to live in the cold at least we can have a white Christmas. Doesn’t happen often enough.
Webster,N.Y. here and up to 14 inches is forcasted. We know how to handle it and it is beautiful but can certainly wear on you. Please remember the volunteer firemen from my community in your prayers. Our area has had a somber holiday season as others have also. I hugged family a little tighter this Christmas as you never what lies ahead.
Will do, Jeanbean.
That’s Beautiful Ms Sh. I am wondering what them wild turkeys do during weather like this?
I’m wondering what people do during weather like this? How do you get around, go to work, the store, get milk? I’m a FL girl so I’m fascinated. I’ve had friends tell me about the windshield scrapping, turning on the car to warm up, and shoveling the driveway, etc.
Its weird because here in Tn we do get snow every now and then and as such the road crews should be well versed in getting that salt laid down. However even with the prep the schools are usually always out because the windy back roads that the buses have to go on are still treacherous. Poorer counties seem to miss the most due to snow days. I remember back in the day having to scrape windshield or two. The best invention ever is that stuff in a can you can just spray on there. and poof frost goes bye bye. We park the car in the garage now but it makes me nervous as a cat in a room full of rocking chairs to pass a driver who just wiped off a lil circle of vision on the front windshield leaving the rest coated with view obscuring ice.
Wow, no wonder everyone comes down here for the winter. You always know when “season” starts b/c it’s impossible to get into a restaurant w/out a long wait and our traffic gets worse. It starts about Oct and ends about March.
I know. My MIL used to live in WinterSprings. We would always go visit in October.
The worst is driving on the highway after a storm and getting smacked in the windshield by a sheet of ice coming off of an 18 wheeler who didn’t clean off his truck. Scares the crap out of me. It actually can be very dangerous and there’s have been fatalities from it. Law states they have to clean off their truck but not all follow the law.
Yikes!! That sounds terrifying!
HWhoe you just learn to be prepared.You drive slower and try to stay closer to home if you can. You always keep enough food on hand and most people are neighborly. We help each other shovel and push out cars that are stuck. The towns in the northeast keep tons of salt ready and constantly plow to keep streets clear. We actuallyhave less snow closing than Ashville N.C. where my brother lives. The best time is late at night when you can hear the snow fall.
Snow is beautiful. And living in the same temp all year long gets a little boring. I wouldn’t mind a little change of scenery every now and then. I love sweater & boot weather
What’s funny is that when it gets below 70º Floridians pull out the boots and jackets and then by noon it’s 80º. LOL
In Stafford which is Southern Ocean County the salt trucks go out and spread a brine on all the roads before anything starts. This melts some of the ice. I have to say the plows have always plowed my street on the hour during a heavy snow storm. They do a wonderful job. Tonight there was a very bad fire on LBI in Surf City. A beachfront house was destroyed. I have the video on my facebook page. Since I’m up north for a few weeks, it’s now raining and warming up as I speak. Rutherford according to my son does a banged up job on the streets. That is Bergen County.
You’re lucky. I miss brown drink weather!!!! However, I don’t missing falling on icy sidewalks that’s for sure.
i live in the hills above Napa CA 2,000ft and we have many days a month where it is in the high 20s at night and I have to warm the car up, to undo the windshield..I had no idea there was magic frost killer in a can. I am going to have to Google it and pick some up at Ace. We get snow a couple times a year..only a quarter inch but my son just loves driving down teh hill with snow on the car, because no one in Napa lives at 2,000 feet like we do. It was raining, cold and wet, but like someone said above, it was so lovely to bundle up. Christmas eve I went into SF to take my son to a hippy church…the more science they take the more God goes out of their lives, so I found one that I thought would appeal to his inner hippy self these days..and have a little Christmas service.
Then his friend and him sat in Union square with the huge tree and just soaked it in, late into the night. I thought I wanted to jump off a bridge Christmas eve like in a Wonderful life…it has been a super hard 46 years, and it doesn’t ever seem to improve, mostly get worse…but then you have those little moments that help you through…belated merry xmas and blessings for a happy new year.
Nancy, what a beautiful place to live. I’m so sorry that your life’s been so hard. I know our lives often turn out so differently than we expect. I wish I could take away your pain. Sounds like you’re a Bible-believing person, so I’ll be praying that God will comfort you and that your next 46 will be a total 180. God bless you and your family in 2013.
Thank you so much for your prayers and good thoughts. All of my friends keep telling me to write a book because my actual life is so much more desperate, unusual, constantly heartbreaking than any other book they have read or seen Oprah read..I just want one week ..or even five days in a row that can go without some sad, bad, or aweful thing happening. It is so wierd. I think I was stalin in a past life. Everyone I know goes through life and a few really sad or bad things happen here and there…I am sooooooooooo tired after so many years. I am just really really really tired. Just venting since another year is approaching. I dread the new year.
Nancy, my heart is breaking for you, and I hesitate to say more because I don’t want to offend you if you don’t believe the same way I do. I will make a point to include you on my prayer list for 2013, and I know many here on SH will join me in wishing you the best in the new year. Please keep us posted.
i am defintely a believer. I was visited by an actual angel 7 years ago..so I definitely believe in prayers, etc.
Wow — tell us more. Staying close to God has been what’s gotten me through the hard times in life.
Nancy , I am glad you vented. I am also very sorry to hear of your troubles. As long as you are breathing life can always get better and I will pray that it does for you. I wish I had words to share that would lift you up ….. Please stay strong and hang in there. I wish you all the very best and many, many blessings.
you know..that is the thing..every day, every week, every year, I have always said to myself..every day is a new day..a new week..but it never does and it is always something different. Most of my friends have only dealt with 1 or 2 of the things..but I have had about all 50 at the top of the list you can think of. Anyway, I was really at my lowest point just begging for God to take me..I was visiting my cousins in so cal..and I had an actual visit from an angel. I wasnt’ asleep. Totally awake and she touched me etc. It is an amazing story. She said that God loves me, and things will get better..so that was in 2008 – I guess we are on God’s time and not mine. But the angel story, you wouldn’t believe it. Amazing
Nancy, that’s an amazing story, and I believe that was God speaking to you through the angel. Our time on earth is like the blink of an eye compared to what awaits us in eternity. I’ve had some harder times than I ever anticipated, myself, but I just have to keep thanking God for what I do have and trusting that He’s in control as I try to follow Him.
Very curious. Did the angel tell you not to touch her/him? Or warn you she/he would have to leave if you tried to touch him/her? You could feel her/him touching you same as if it was a person right?
see below for the full story. not sure if it answer’s your question or not. I did not touch her. She touched me. Yes, it felt like a person touching me.
I am so sorry to hear about your hard times. Will keep you in my prayers nancy. The deicer is made by prestone I think BUT you can make your own using isopropyl alcohol with a 3 drops of dish washing liquid in a spray bottle. It works decent but the store bought kind is the best.
i am buying some on the way home. Now if I could just have one that shoots out from the front of my car like a bat mobile when I drive down the hill in the am, all would be well
tee hee
okay..so here’s my angel story. I thought it was 7 years ago..but it was 2008. so 5 years ago.
I was really at rock bottom. The kids and I escaped an abusive father / husband. I was so scared and then I found out from my 16 year old daughter things her father had done to her..etc. I was facing his very very rich family, court, no money, just a rented tiny apt I could only afford for a month more. I drove to my cousins to take my son to a soccer tournament. The kids and I arrived super late and fell right to sleep. I awoke suddenly at 6am. Bolted out of bed. I just had to get to the beach. My car was sandwiched in, but I spent 20 min inching it out. I had no idea where the beach was, as we arrived at night and I had not been to their house. Little did I know later they were 2 blocks straight up from the beach. I drove out back on the freeway and down another 7 miles and pulled into a large parking lot with a cliff on one side, one way in parking lot and the beach. I could see a mile in either direction. It was now 6:30. I grew up at the beach in Redondo and surfed all over as a kid. Never in my life had I been to a beach past 6:30 and there were not joggers, surfers, etc. it was spring too. It was so abandoned, that I thought there might be a tsunami warning, or shark attack, pollution. Not one car in the parking lot, not one surfer, not anyone on the beach. I walked about 50 yards out onto the beach with my towel. I thought I would just swim straight out until I couldn’t see the shore anymore. I just sat down and cried and cried for about 5 minutes asking God to please take me, help me, give me some hope. I prayed for anything and everything. I had been through so many terrible times (none of my own doing..no drugs, etc…just kind of Job things – enough to fill 3 books), but this was just too much. My kids in danger for their future, a narcissistic socio path that we fled. I was crumbling. I knew I could not make it through the next 2 years of court. I was as low as anyone could ever feel and far too tired to go on even one more day. Then I stood up to go in the water and a beautiful girl about 5’4″ was standing right next to me. She had brilliant blond hair in a short pixie cut. Blue eyes that make Paul Newman’s look like pond water, and skin that was so beautiful. I was taken aback. Right away she started speaking to me. “I was told by God to come down to the beach right away and there was a girl that was in trouble and needed me there.” I thought she was some kind of wierd bible thumper and looked in her hands for literature. I also looked for a car, or a bike, or anything. There is no town around, so she didn’t walk from anywhere. still no one was in the parking lot or on the beach. She said, “What’s wrong.” I answered, nothing. She said, “Can I pray for you, can I take your hand.” I replied,”Yes.” She started praying a generic prayer for God to watch over me, then let go of my hand in mid sentence and said, “no, this is wrong, something is hurting you, what is it? Do you have cancer, are you hurt?” I replied, no, but my kids and I are in danger and ….as i was speaking, she interrupted and said, “I know I know.” Then she started praying all about my court case ahead and very specific things about having the judge know the truth, etc. I was bawling by now. I could not believe what was happening. Then she turned me towards her. I could see into these beautiful eyes, and she said…”I have to tell you, that God loves you very much. Very much. And he is going to see you through this, and everything is going to be okay. I promise, he loves you, and you will be okay and have good things ahead.” I was crying so hard. She turned my body towards the ocean. I stood there for about 5 seconds then turned back towards her, and she was gone. Totally vanished. I looked at my phone to see if I had passed out, or something, and only a few min. had gone by. I looked…there was no car, no bike. She couldn’t have run anywhere. Then I looked back at the beach…THERE WERE SURFERS IN the water, runners on the beach, and cars in the lot. Instantly they had appeared. Time had stopped or something. I then endured two years and $100,000 in my legal fees, but I had a former district attorney in family court, who could see right through my husband, and for the first time in 30 years, the court told my husband to leave the kids and I alone, and they never wanted to or had to see him again. He is really an evil person, and sometimes even dads, if they are evil, ..well. The story is about the angel. I knew everything that happened to me during that 2 years, I could survive, because the angel told me I could. I drove back bawling and told the kids what had happened. Anyway..that is my angel story. God really does exist.
sorry for the long rambling story with bad spelling and grammar. Trying to work at some time and I always cry remembering this like it was yesterday.
Simply breathtaking.
I can’t even begin to describe, how completely low I felt at that moment. I think God really knew..that I couldn’t make it..I really couldn’t go on and I was on my knees in the sand just in total belief that there is a God, but that I couldn’t take it anymore. He knew..so he sent her. Now when I lie and bed when things are so bad and wish that he would take me in my sleep, I think of her and remember that she said things will get better.
Nancy, I’ve heard stories similar to yours. God does know when we need His touch.
Well, if you ever have anyone doubting God, tell them you actually spoke to someone who met and was saved by an angel.
Believe me, I will. I think you had a little taste of heaven on the beach that day.
thanks..that is the perfect song. You remind me of in City slickers..when the two ice cream brothers said they could pick the perfect flavor for any meal – and billy Crystal challenges them. You always have the perfect song or clip. Love that about you. It is funny because the terrible A Moral housewives, brought this little community together thanks to SH, and the interaction between us, has kept me going on some dark days – pathetic I know – but it has.
Thanks Its weird huh? That we all came together here.
Yes, we’ve all found some wonderful new friends.
blessings come in the strangest packages…I love reading all your comments and hearing little tidbits about your lives intersperced with attacks on the evil Traylor Trash etc..ha ha.
It is so fun. It is a fun connection.
It sure is.
Hi Nancy , I hope this doesn’t sound totally whack but I believe and have faith that God, all knowing and all seeing knew that you had been struggling against an evil force in your life and needed his reassurance. We all encounter difficulties in our life, losses, disappointments or simply poor choices. I believe you were up against an entirely different entity. I do believe when we are faced with darkness that God has the capacity to send us exactly what we need. My words may be cryptic but I assure my meaning is not. I hope you carry a crucifix with you and ask God to encircle you with his angels to keep you safe from harm. I have heard people blame alcoholism and mental illness for the cruelty others inflict and I do believe that 99% of the time that is true but I know with all of my heart that sometimes there is a truly evil person consumed by darkness. I believe you have a guardian angel and you were allowed the special gift of seeing that angel in an acceptable form that would not frighten you. My prayers go out to you…and I wish you peace and light.
Hi Ainty…I truly believe that too. For 17 years it enveloped us until my own children had organized with my boss that they were going to get out of the house with or without me. I have had those guardian angels with me. Just before I met my ex husband, I had so many terrible things happen..then him, then some terrible things since then as well. I am really worn down. I need a month off. I always pray specifically to my guardian angels to protect us. My grandparents were awesome and I was so close to them. I always ask God to send them to protect and guide me as well. Sometimes I think I can’t handle just one more thing..but as I said, there is always one more thing. Didn’t Job have blessings at the end of his life after all the tragedy..how old was he? Older than 46 maybe. Anyway, for anyone that ever doubts God. He is real, His angel touched me. and He does love all of us. Nobody every forget that. Thank you all for your friendship, kind words and encouragement. It really helps…especially heading into the new year.
@ Dearest Nancy I don’t know much more to say other than you have many friends here and we will wrap you and your children in our hearts with prayer. I think we are here because we are trying to find some sanity in a world that is so foreign to all we know and believe. God DOES work in mysterious ways. Much love, Adios.
WOW!
Your post gave me chills….Thank you for telling your story! It just helped me a lot.
I agree, it gave me chills reading it as well. God bless you Nancy, I really hope things look up for you and your family.
I’m jealous. It hasn’t snowed here since January of 2011.
Reminds me of Hawk Mountain in Vermont, soo peacefulm Happy Holidays
ooops peaceful!
Wow, looks soooo cold in those pics! I live in SoCal and get cold when the temp dips below 65 degrees. Woke up this morning and freaked out when the gauge read 61, lol! I must have thin blood or something.