Snowy Night

     Hi everyone. Happy middle of the week to you. I wrote this post yesterday, and I'm hoping this morning will be a more peaceful morning than yesterday was. We thought a battery in one of our household smoke detectors was beeping, but then when we did the battery replacement, we still had the beeping. Waking up to beeping and not being able to find the source is very annoying. 😒 Never mind it was scaring Mr. Pete. In fact, it wasn't the beeping that woke me up but the fact that he jumped into bed and was panting voraciously in fear. Maybe voraciously isn't quite the right word, but it reminded me of a dog scoffing down some food. His panting activity was shaking the bed so much that I knew something wasn't right. Turned out there was a carbon monoxide detector on the bureau in the spare bedroom that was beeping. No,(thankfully), we didn't have a carbon monoxide problem, but I don't know when or how the detector was put there. I didn't even know we had one there. Anyhow, I plugged the detector in, it gave one loud final beep, and then turned green for good to go and the noise stopped. That took about an hour of tracking down the beep. And about an hour later Pete finally stopped panting.  Now, it's kind of funny, but yesterday first thing in the morning before the sun even came up it wasn't such a good time. 

 Today I have an art journal page to share  for Sharon's Snow challenge over at Art Journal Journey.

    I started by using a very old set of swirl stamps from Autumn Leaves. Remember them? They've been out of business for a very long time. I used 2 stamps from this clear set and stamped them using blue ink. I then painted the bottom of my page white for snow  To finish off the background I used  some Dina Wakely blue paint spray.

    Once that dried,  I glued down this punch out tree image and also fussy cut out the owl. I stamped the postage mark ( from another very old stamp set) and also the quote, which I don't know who made it because it's another oldie. And to finish my page, I took some blue sequins and glued them down on my page.

    Last weekend we had some pretty chilly weather. Sunday my husband and I took a ride up to his Mom's house to check that everything was OK. There was ice on the pond, not thick enough to walk on, but it sparkled in the sunlight. 

     Even though we've had some wet weather as of late, we'd been in a drought all fall. You can tell because they let some of the water out of the dam in September (a normal thing they do every few years so they can do damn repairs and people can make waterfront repairs), and the water level still hasn't come all the way back up. I wonder when the ice goes out in the spring if that will bring the water level back up. I certainly hope it will.

     That's all for me. Have a great rest of your day.