Snow Day Part 2

Nemo, the official name, or as we call it, the Blizzard of 2013, dropped an official 28 inches around here in New Durham. There were drifts much higher though (I think some were 4 feet) and spots where there was much less.

Of course Harl just loves the snow. He was thrilled when we went out to do some clearing.

Keep in mind, we didn't have any snow before this.

All this snow fell last night and this morning.

I had to shovel by starting at the top and then working my way down. Every square foot took about 5 shovelfuls to reach the bottom of the deck.  The good thing it was light and fluffy snow.

The wind was still whipping out today so I had to bundle up.

Look at the hubby

I will also say it was a nice relaxing kind of weekend. Even the malls were closed all day- so who felt the need to go out? I didn't. Kind of stay home little mini-vacation for me, I loved it!

I think this old man likes to catch snowflakes on his tongue- ha-ha!

Thanks for visiting.

Snow Day 1

Or I could have titled this post, what I did on my snow day off from work?

This was early in the day, when we just had a light breezy snow coming down.

Old Harl looks like a wolf standing out in my yard.

Ignore the flash glare.

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Why do they always move their heads when you are just about to snap a photo?

This is how I spent part of my afternoon. Dina Wakely's new book arrived in the mail- I had pre-ordered it last fall after taking a class with her. I enjoyed starting to read it while eating a big bowl of popcorn.

This books looks excellent.

I really like Dina's style.

In the morning I made some meatballs and then got inspired and made a rainbow cake. Have you seen a rainbow cake? I didn't measure really well and ran out of batter so it had no violet layer.

I also used liquid food coloring and it doesn't give the deep rich color of paste colorings.

I made one of these 3 years ago. Here's how dark that one came out.

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You can tell I used paste colorings here.

This time my cake was pastel rainbow.

Still delicious though!!!!

The cake recipes itself is really good, moist and light.

I usually can't make very great homemade from scratch light and moist cakes,

but I would use this recipe for any other cake.

It was yummy to eat after the meatballs and while we watched Star Wars episode 4 last night.

You can see the snow blowing in the porch lights last night.

They say we're going to have more of this part of the day today before it slows down.

I'll show you some more another time.

Hopefully (since I wrote this later last night) we still have and will not lose our power.

Stay warm, snow free and in the light.