Don went out to try to save the rest of it! In about six hours we had about 12" of wet heavy snow on the ground, the heaviest we have ever experienced in all our 24 years of living here.
In the light of the morning we saw more destruction...another crepe myrtle that used to have three trucks now has one! So sad....they were so beautiful in the late summer.
Looking around we saw more victims.....
...everything behind the grape arbor is a goner...
....but the biggest mess is down the driveway...those white pines on the right have given up tons of branches....we have a big clean up ahead of us.
But Slate doesn't care....he just wanted to be as high above it all as he could get!I don't know why he had to come out there...oh yeah...I forgot...he thinks he's a dog and follows us wherever we go around the yard!:)
Back inside, warm, full of coffee and homemade chili, I have robots on the brain....two yards of robots....can anyone think of something fun I can do with them?:)
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Our driveway was the same...if you didn't know it was there...it seemed to be an arbor of bent snowy branches...I spent an hour shaking them off gently...our crepe myrtle survived...as did most of our trees...my bamboo gets hit badly...but then we can use the dead canes for garden...wattle fencing...and we use them on the top of the deck as a shade roof...
ReplyDeletemake lemonade!!!
Cya tomorrow girl!...Love the photo of Don and Slate!
WOW! What a lot of snow! Hope you are toasty and warm :) keep on quilting ;)
ReplyDeleteWow, the east and the south have gotten more snow than us here in Mid Michigan this season. We have snow, just not that much and never more than a few inches at a time. Have fun with your robots.
ReplyDeleteRobots. . .for a BOY quilt! Cut squares and then just frame them with bright colors. Nothing more needed.
ReplyDeleteWow, that's a lot of snow!
ReplyDeleteMy son says you should make a bag with the robot fabric lol.
Those robots are so great! I love them (as would my son and nephew!). I'm wondering where you are in VA b/c I'm in Blacksburg and we didn't get the promised snow!!! BTW are you part of any Modern Quilt anything in VA?
ReplyDeleteIt's gonna be July before you see all that snow melted. Oh well, makes for great sewing weather!
ReplyDeleteWow, that's a lot of snow! At least none of the trees fell on you or your hubby!! I bet you could make a great ticker tape quilt with that robot fabric!!
ReplyDeleteA block entered my mind when I saw your robots, like a big square that sits on the floor with batting or a styrofoam form - I've seen some great ones lately with colorful patchwork fabric (I'm not sure what they're called, and I wish I had a link for you. Too bad about your beautiful trees - mother nature's way of grooming and trimming, maybe?
ReplyDeleteWe shook our trees out that night. If we didn't I think we would have lost them all. Your driveway looks crazy. can you even get out? The girls are thrilled with their third day off of school.
ReplyDeleteI can't even imagine how it is to live in the middle of all that snow! I think that so many white is beautiful, but I can guess the negative side of it... Poor trees!
ReplyDeleteOh Dee... what a shame of the trees... but it looks like a winterwonderland at yours! beautiful! Hope you are all ok and tucked up with that hot choc after clearing you long long drive!!
ReplyDeleteYikes!!! Hope your all ok? That is some snow, I've never experienced it on such a scale as that anywhere I've lived. Poor trees, Crepe Myrtles are so so pretty. The Robots are cute, my youngest would like a case for his DS console and games please!!! lol, guess I need to put that on the 'to do list'.
ReplyDeleteMy, that's a lot of snow! We just have rain and mud around here. How about something kind of mod style with those robots?
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