What a day of turmoil around the world, starting with the earthquake in Chile. Terremoto Santiago has some more 1st person views of his homeland on his Flickr photostream. We were watching for a tsunami to hit Hawaii, but they were spared by just having a small one-so far.
Update-I just learned that one of my Flickr art swap pals is in Chile and has been there for the death of her mother last week. So sad! Keep Constanza in your thoughts and prayers.
Felt better enough to do a little baking. I got out my Martha Stewart cookie cookbook and found this recipe for peanut butter swirl brownies. Lots of butter and peanut butter. Cake-like and yummy.
We had about 3 or so inches of snow, a drop in the bucket right? Sean couldn’t help Brian shovel (who had half a day) because he is still getting over his cold/virus. My tummy is bothering me a little and my right sinus hurts and is pushing on the pin in my gum where I just had my crown replaced. A Tylenol seems to keep it in check.
I am hoping to get to the Philly flower show-probably next Sunday or sooner. It’s a lot of walking and I want to feel chipper to do so. My mom of course is planning on going around Tuesday with a friend.
Have a cozy weekend!
Just an update to let you know that I will draw a ‘One World, One Heart’ winner around 11 am on Feb. 15th. I feel the people out west can still enter-so can you!
Broken-so what is broken is the snow amounts for the Philadelphia area! In the winter of 2009-2010, we have gotten over 70″ of snow (Sean is saying close to 80″). It’s still hanging around too. We are getting a few more inches tonight. Driving around in it is surreal too. The pushed aside snow looks like white boulders. I told Bri last night that I wish I had my camera with me, but there would hardly be a place to park. And the icicles-some are at least 4 feet long! It sure looks like Alaska around here!
Well, Barbara mentioned she made homemade soft pretzels,so of course I being a Philly girl, had to make some. I started them in my bread machine and when I went to turn them out to make the ropes, the dough was really sticky. I followed a recipe, but perhaps the machine over-kneaded the dough. I got it to work, and this is what I got and they weren’t bad! I had to use Italian coarse salt, so you are seeing some herbs on the pretzels.I think I’m making too many things with yeast lately (Di*Giorno pizza today) as our tummies are a little ‘pouf-pouf’ you get my drift.
We did survive the blizzard! Yeah! We had our power, but my mom and brother didn’t for overnight. It was rough. We had a nice sunny day today, so that helped. The guys had to do a terrible lot of digging. We had 2-3 feet snowdrifts around the vehicles. It’s been the snowiest winter in over 100 yrs in these parts. I really look forward to seeing grass again.
Here we go again! There must be another 16 inches of snow piled on top of the 23″ we got 4 days ago. Look at my van in this photo-almost all covered now! The guys haven’t even attempted to shovel anything. The wind is picking up every now and then. We haven’t lost power, but we are preparing for it. We have a fire going, I made tuna salad, hard-boiled eggs, bacon and have dough in the machine for soft pretzels (which I haven’t made in years). I am finding myself tidying up here and there. I’ll be so organized by spring!
My mom lost power for about 3 hours which prompted me to get the above food together. I am hoping that when we had repair work done after the tornado went through here in the late 90s (when I contracted Lyme Disease), they put up super duper wires and poles! Waving from Alaska-I mean Pennsylvania!
We are expecting another huge, windy snowstorm Tuesday night to Wednesday, maybe another foot. This is so bizarre for the Philly area. We usually miss storms like this. Look at my roof and all the icicles hanging down-we live in an igloo now!
Carole showed some Valentine’s Day decorations on her sweet blog (Pea’s Corner), so I added some Conversation hearts to a candle holder I had in the middle of my dining room table. It’s sitting on a pink hexagon designed cake dish. I don’t go overboard for Valentine’s Day, but I am know to put out a heart or two.
Its still snowing at 12:45 pm. I think we have at least 2 feet. We don’t get snowstorms like this that often. The guys haven’t gone out yet to try and clear it away from the sidewalks or vehicles. There is a huge snowdrift right outside the front door! Praying the power stays on as we don’t have firewood (but the neighbor does!). It’s like living inside a snow globe. The ‘eye’ of the storm was over Washington, DC and it spread up here a bit. NYC hasn’t seen anything nor has New England.
This looks so neat!!
On any given, ‘average’ day, I can walk around a little piece of paradise in my corner of the world. This place is Longwood Gardens. And I have a garden pass-best $60 a year I spend. I think I’ve taken at least one thousand photos there over the past few years. This was just taken a few days ago when my son and I went to get snow shots. By 3 pm, the snow was mainly gone. Now tonight, it’s snowing again-we’ll probably get at least a foot or more overnight. I should maybe try those snow photos again in a few days. This is the part of the Conservatory that was remodeled in the last few years. I love how the sun looks on the back wall. And if you look even closer, you can see huge mounds of dirt as they are adding on to it again!
Collages & Creative Goodness 