{"id":5771,"date":"2011-02-01T14:30:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T20:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/?p=5771"},"modified":"2011-02-01T14:30:59","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T20:30:59","slug":"the-blizzard-is-in-full-swing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/uncategorized\/the-blizzard-is-in-full-swing\/","title":{"rendered":"the blizzard is in full swing…"},"content":{"rendered":"

amy went down to feed the swans and texted me that she felt like laura ingalls wilder.\u00a0 understandable, except for the texting part of course.<\/p>\n

this morning i was gonna sleep in, spend a little quality time sitting around…and instead i was up before seven, and by seven i was down at the dock feeding the swans.\u00a0 i was scared i’d fall in the lake because it’s so icy, but it wasn’t so bad down there then.<\/p>\n

yesterday when i was in my seminar it snowed in the afternoon before it all turned to sleet, and there were huge flakes, said kevin.\u00a0 he took a couple pictures, but it’s hard to do justice to giant flakes of snow.<\/p>\n

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i went down and fed the swans, but then i realized it looked so lovely that i went back up to get my camera.<\/p>\n

this is how it looked at seven this morning.\u00a0 not so bad, except for the very hard layer of ice on the deck and in the yard near the house.<\/p>\n

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the trees were especially pretty and glistening.\u00a0 they’d have been even lovelier if the sun had been shining, but we probably won’t see any of that for another month or so.<\/p>\n

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of course, since i came back, the swans did, too, expecting a second breakfast.<\/p>\n

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and they were bitterly disappointed when it wasn’t forthcoming.<\/p>\n

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i took this picture and the photos for today’s banner so you can see what it was like this morning.\u00a0 it’s already completely different, but i don’t know when i’ll be out taking any more pictures any time soon.<\/p>\n

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the squirrel was desperate to get at the corn inside the chimney of the bird house\/feeder.<\/p>\n

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that was before the blizzard started…here’s how the poor little guy looked about an hour ago, with his friend the blue jay.<\/p>\n

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there wasn’t such a crowd of birds an hour ago.<\/p>\n

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i tried to capture the blowing snow, but it didn’t work out so well.\u00a0 now if i went out there, it would be very dramatic…the problem is that the swans need to be fed one more time.\u00a0 it’s not gonna be a fun thing.<\/p>\n

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there are tons of birds out on the deck now – at least seven cardinals, a bunch of little bitty…i don’t know, little bitty birds.\u00a0 starlings?\u00a0 i don’t know what they’re called.\u00a0 some brown ones and some grey ones.\u00a0 plus a woodpecker every once in a while.\u00a0 the birds are having a terrible time flying because it’s so insanely windy out there.<\/p>\n

the bird seed is getting all covered up and i need to put more out…the thought seems a little bit dreadful.<\/p>\n

amy and i were both so happy that we didn’t have to leave the house today, but then i started thinking that if there is two feet of snow, the power could go out, and we don’t have many taper candles and it would be kind of dark in here.\u00a0 so we went to wal-mart together and it wasn’t so bad, then.\u00a0 now would be a different story.<\/p>\n

maybe i’ll go put out more food when the birds leave – they must be finding some seed under the snow or there wouldn’t be so many of them hanging around.<\/p>\n

ok then,<\/p>\n

mrs. blizzard of ’11 hughes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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