Avalanche

 

I have decided to try and shovel my way out of many months of unblogged photos for the next week or so, in an effort to get up to date and begin blogging at more regular intervals.  Announcing an avalanche of photos coming by posting the photos of an avalanche of snow that came mid-November just seemed fitting.

Our first snow of the season dumped over 14 inches on us. Snow clung to the trees and swirled all around us, transforming our world into a snowglobe.  A winter wonderland.  Narnia.

It also happened to knock out the power for nearly a week.  (Which is magical and fun- except when you have to milk a cow by hand that is used to a milker; water cows that drink GALLONS of water a day (without running water) and heat your home without a wood furnace (which requires electricity to burn hot).  Other than that, times without electricity are some of the most fun times of all.  (Unless it is out so long you begin to worry about all that meat in the freezers...)  Other than those worries, no electricity times are some of my favorite times.

Earlier in the day, before the snow began, I had baked sugar cookies with the intent to decorate them before company that night.  (I never got around to it.)  Company came, feasted and stayed very late.  The kitchen was a WRECK and I wanted nothing more than to go straight to bed.  But for some strange reason, I convinced myself that I would have a much more successful day if I just went ahead and cleaned the kitchen at midnight than wake up to a mess.  (I am rarely so level-headed.)   I did it though, went to bed, and woke up to no running water.  BUT A CLEAN KITCHEN!!!!

(And decorating those snowman sugar cookies by lamplight was pretty fun too.  I can't believe how dark a home gets at 4pm without any lights going...that is when those dark pictures in the kitchen were taken.)

Thankfully, with a gas stove, hot food is always a possibility, even if it is just eggs and homemade cheese.  And cinnamon toast.  With leftover frosting glazed on top.

In the next week or so you all may get a bit dizzy from all the blog jumping I'll be doing.  The only thing I promise is that it will be done in a very slapdash way.  Hold on to your caps- an avalanche is coming!