16 Responses to “Back to the Snow and Ice”

1. I bet the dogs were glad to see you. When I left my two Poms for a week to go to Vegas when I got home you would have thought I gave them away. But they were super good the next week when we moved all the stuff from Idaho to Illinois and even listened when we talked to them.

   We had 70 degree weather this week here in St. Louis. Can you say global warming?

   Welcome back.

   by Lynn on January 9th, 2008 at 8:36 am
   
   

2. Glad you got to get away from the snow and ice for awhile. What a blessing that must have been. I’m counting down the days to spring. It’s 72 days away. We got an extra day of winter in there with the leap year thing.

   by Diana Celesky on January 9th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
   
   

3. Colder than usual in London for this time of the year, although it hardly matches up to what any of you are going through…I’m still wearing my heavy duffle coat and looking a cross between a hooded monk and a yeti.

   by Rudolf on January 9th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
   
   

4. Thanks, Lynn. Yes, the doggies were excited as usual, even though they love the dog place I take them. And the owners. They have a farm and stables w/horses and keep dogs and have a huge horse arena. So, the doggies have a ball. They LOVE Vince and Tammy. So do I. I know my doggies are being “loved up” as Vince would say, while I’m gone. They also train them while they’re there, so they get an extra shot of obedience training while there.

   Would you believe they even get to have extra playtime in the morning? After feeding and greeting each other in big open pens, Vince and Tammy take five doggies at a time (compatible) and let them loose in the horse arena with some balls. They get to race around for a while, having a ball. As I said, it’s a professional horse arena so it’s huge.

   Who knows? Maybe one day, they won’t want to come back home.

   by Maggie on January 9th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
   
   

5. Snow and ice. Yuck. All the snow that melted off my driveway and neighbors seems to have accumulated in the lower portion of the street in front of my house. It’s solid ice. Double yuck. And we’ve got scattered snow flurries today and tonight as another big storm moves through the High Country west of us.

   by Maggie on January 9th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
   
   

6. Rudolf—How cold is it in London? I was there in December 2004 when daughter Maria was assigned to Oundle. It felt like winter in Washington DC metro area where I grew up–thirties and damp cold. We didn’t get much rain. Just grey, grey weather.

   Oundle was such a precious town. A little Harry Potter village just an hour north of London. With a highly-regarded public (private) school there, it was like watching the cast of characters from the Potter books out and about. Maria swears Ron ran past her several times.

   by Maggie on January 9th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
   
   

7. By and large, a lot of grey and damp weather at the moment. Today, mainly in the 40s; yesterday a cold wind. A few days back, 30s/40s…but weather is so changeable with us, as you know!
   I’ve not ever been to Oundle, but can imagine that what your daughter says is very accurate!

   by Rudolf on January 10th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
   
   

8. Hey there! I am a new visitor to the cozy chicks blog, but this is a cool spot ! I think I will book mark it

   I had to post in response to your cold weather story.

   I am down south, in the middle of the US and down here it has been unseasonably warm. Like in the 70’s. We are not too thrilled either because when this happens we have an outbreak of tornadoes, which has happened already this week, and I am just a wreck during storms.

   Anyway, thanks for the chance to post. I will be back!
   kim

   by Kim Smith on January 10th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
   
   

9. Welcome back, Maggie! I can’t believe the weather here…It’s been 60+ the past couple of days. Makes me wonder if Heat Miser from The Year Without a Santa Clause has been working overtime. But still, here I am in my nice warm nightgown that I got for Christmas. Mom said it would be too hot for today…I told her it wouldn’t, and I was right. She is always warm, but I’m always freezing. I’m never warm unless it’s 85 out and have been known to wear sweat shirts in summer (if I know I’m going to be in A/C most of the time), but even I have to admit that 60’s is ridiculous for January. I think Mother Nature is very confused.

   by Traci on January 11th, 2008 at 1:46 am
   
   

10. Rudolf—exactly where are you located in England? Now you’ve got me curious.

    by Maggie on January 11th, 2008 at 2:24 am
    
    

11. Kim—welcome to the Cozy Chicks blog! Glad you found us.

    I know what you mean about warm weather. I was in WashDC & NYC areas for last two weeks of Dec. Then spent from Jan 2nd thru Jan 7th in Texas, Houston area—actually south of that, between Houston and Galveston. Whoa—–talk about lovely temps. 70’s and 60’s at the lowest. Wow. I could get used to winters like that.

    But—-I can relate to your tornado fears, Kim. Our family lived for 15 years in Indiana at Purdue University, West Lafayette (between Indianapolis and Chicago). Part of “Tornado Alley.” I’d never been exposed to tornadoes, having grown up in suburbs of NoVa near WashDC. Talk about scary. The sky turns greenish black and goes deadly calm. Even though West Lafayette was at the top of several hills across the Wabash river from Lafayette and thus didn’t experience tornadoes, enough of them touched down across the river in Lafayette. And totally destroyed several small towns in Indiana.

    The thing I found most frightening about tornadoes was the “capriciousness” of their destuction. One house would be totally destroyed, wiped from the face of the earth, leaving only rubble, trees over a hundred years old uprooted from the ground. And the house next door—-completely untouched. Incredible. . .and very, very frightening.

    by Maggie on January 11th, 2008 at 2:39 am
    
    

12. Okay, Traci—where are you? I like to keep track of you “warm people.” I may turn into a “snow bird” next winter. I’m starting to get tired of snow and ice. Snow is pretty but it’s the ice you have to maneuver around and through and over. Sheesh. Those three weeks away in milder temps must have spoiled me.

    And—truth be told—those “drought years” we had here in the West spoiled us in Colorado to milder winters. These last two years we’ve had regular cold-as-hell winters. And some of us are sulking. Pout, pout.

    by Maggie on January 11th, 2008 at 2:43 am
    
    

13. I live in London - fairly centrally between Camden Town and Hampstead. The post code is NW5, which means north west London.

    by Rudolf on January 11th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
    
    

14. I live in London - fairly centrally between Camden Town and Hampstead. The post code is NW5, which means north west London. Beyond NW1 or so, the numbers are in alphabetical order…NW10 would be an area whose name begins with a later letter in the alphabet, for example.

    by Rudolf on January 11th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
    
    

15. Maggie, I’m in PA. NE PA to be exact. If you’re ever in the area, you’ll have to look me up. Even though I love warm weather, I’d kill for a White Christmas. They were calling for it this year, but it didn’t happen. Until a few years ago, I used to go around and look at the Christmas Blvd. and the local Catholic church at Christmastime. It was never Christmas until I did. The last year we did this, it was so warm, we actually got out of the car and walked around the churchyard.

    Rudolph, so that’s what those codes mean! I used to have pen-pals in England, but I never knew what the heck they meant. Thanks for explaining it.

    by Traci on January 12th, 2008 at 2:56 am
    
    

16. Traci—-well, you can come to Colorado for Christmas if you want snow. The last two years we had it on the ground for two weeks before Dec 25th. Now, I was gone this year for Christmas, but it actually snowed on Chrstmas Day and my mom said it was beautiful.

    by Maggie on January 14th, 2008 at 1:25 am
    
    

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