For all you football enthusiast, it looks like the San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens will be going head-to-head in the upcoming Super Bowl Championship the first weekend in February. Who will you be rooting for?
We will be cheering for the Ravens in Super Bowl XLVII. For me, it’ll be mainly for two reasons. First and perhaps the most important is I DO NOT like the 49ers quarterback. He appears to be a rude, thug on the field. That’s so uncool. Second is I have recently come to appreciate Raven’s teammate, Ray Lewis. He used to seem all big and bad and a bit scary but he appears to have had a change…a change of the heart for Christ. This has earned new respect for the man in my eye.
Did someone say snow? Holy Toledo, we had such a HUGE mess here in Knoxville last Thursday. It took DH two and a half hours to get home, which is normally a 30-minute drive. Long story short due to our wet conditions last week the city could not treat the roads. Okay, that’s normally not such a bad thing. The day before the meteorologists predicted a dusting of snow in the valley. Anyone living in the area long enough usually doubts the forecasters anytime they utter that 4-letter word S-N-O-W. We have adapted to the Yeah, we’ll see about that! kinda attitude.
By Thursday morning, the weatherman announced accumulation of 1-3 inches possible. That’s when I thought, “Okay, we might get a dusting of snow after all.“
Around 1 pm, the snow began to fall and fall it did, rapidly and heavily. It was that wet kind of fluff which spelled trouble with a capital T resulting with jammed roadways with bumper-to-bumper driving. Vehicles abandoned. Highway 441 turned into a sheet of ice beneath DH’s wheels and back streets leading to our house extremely treacherous. DH had to park the car in the middle of the road, borrow a snow shovel from a nearby neighbor, and cleared a path (two-tracks) for the car to travel up a granddaddy of a hill that turns onto our street. He slipped. He fell. He got the job done and he barely got the car home.
He was absolutely worn out and completely stressed by the time he finally showed up. As for DS, he got stranded on the other side of town and had to spend the evening with his sister. After everything, we got 8 inches of snow unlike parts of west Knoxville which in fact only got a dusting.
In the middle of all that crazy mess, our power flickered on and off several times before stabilizing and on top of that, we were experiencing trouble with our Verizon cell service. It was crazy, really. We could not call other Verizon customers, but we could call non-Verizon numbers. In order for me to communicate with DH or DS, I had to use our VoIP home phone service. Thankfully, we did not lose our electrical service.
A peek at our winter bliss.
Friday morning skies were fairer. We were in no great hurry to rush out to do our errands because the streets were icy. The city of Knoxville rely heavily on Mother Nature to lend a hand on secondary roads. We eventually ventured at noon to make a grocery run. These were some of my neighborhood sightings.
I just wish the weather would coöperate at the right time, like why couldn’t we have gotten this last month say for Christmas? This week, it’s simply cold! Today’s high expected to be barely above freezing. I’m so ready for spring. How about you?
Grab a hot cup of coffee and join me as I visit my lovelies at.
Chats on a Farmhouse Porch
Before I leave you, allow me to respond to Patrice’s questions of conversation on her farmhouse porch chat:
- Do you eat eggs? What is your favorite way to serve them? I do like Eggs. My over-all favorite way to eat them is simply in an omelet or scrambled.
- Do you have a favorite item that you really like having around? (a pillow, a chair, a sweater, a teddy bear, etc.) Does my husband count? If so, then I choose him. 😀
- Is most of the furniture in your home dark wood, light wood, painted, lacquered, or distressed? I We have a lot of dark wood in our house, but when we go to add new additions in the future I want to move toward lighter finishes.
- Please fill in the rest of this sentence. “I could write a book about my brother’s death and what I think really happened, but none of it can be proved. In my opinion, if I were good enough to pull it all together then it would make for an excellent drama.“
- If money and calendar/family obligations weren’t an issue, would you prefer to spend next weekend at a Bed and Breakfast, a posh hotel, a cabin in the woods, or on a sailboat on a calm body of water? I guess the last thing, the sailboat, would have to be someplace warm. 🙂 (It’s 30+ degrees here.) Of these suggestions, then the cabin in the woods sounds perfect. I love quaint, personal comforts over the posh, expensive, or exotic get-aways any day.
Have a terrific Tuesday!