Another Snow Day....

It has been an awful winter. We keep getting dumped on. As I am typing this, the wind is roaring and the snow is blowing. I can't even see across the street. Another day at home with Brody. I would be enjoying this, if we haven't already had so many snow days. The whole month of December brought us 28 inches of snow. 28. That's just fallen, not before the wind picks up and blows it all over, creating 6-10 foot drifts.

Gah.

These pictures are actually from our Christmas storm, ( 2 storms ago.) Above is the intersection in front of my house. Tractors trying to help open the roads.

This is my driveway. Nice, huh? It was 4 feet deep, almost the whole length of it. And I had to manually shovel it by myself. It took me FOREVER. Actually, I did it over three days, it's not like we could go anywhere, and since no one could get here with a blower to help, I figured what's the hurry?

This is our backyard. I had to shovel a path from the back door so that poor Ernie could get outside to do his business! How insane is all that snow!!

Finally, late on Day 2 we saw some plows on the street. You can see how deep the roads were. I wish I had gotten a picture of the "pile" - where the city dumps all the snow before hauling it out of town.

I have never seen this much snow! (I guess I have - I was informed that the winter of '82 was maybe worse, but I was only 2 so I don't remember that!)

So what does a person do with all this time at home?? Besides playing the Wii, watching movies and reading, you clean clean clean until you can't clean anymore, and you bake.

I've baked a lot in the past few weeks. Here's a few links to Brody's and my favorites -

Snickerdoodle Blondies - these are AWESOME! Brody would like for me to make them everyday.

Homemade Applesauce - this is soooooo gooooood. I've made it three times since Christmas. In fact - I've got a double batch in the crock pot right now for later!!

Puppy Chow - all time favorite.

Banana Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Bread - you MUST make this. SOOOO good. and use dark chocolate chips.

Chunky Chicken Noodle and Vegetable Soup - yum.

These are some of my own recipes, so no links - but still delicious!!

Chili

Loose Meats

Pudding Cookies

Chicken Enchiladas

and almost everything from the Pioneer Woman's cookbook.

Today - I am making these - Peanut Butter Chewies.

Not so good for the weight watchers points. Good thing I've got all this extra time to work out with Jillian (ouch) and my Wii Fit!!