Almost American

I still haven't figured out why every time there's a big snowstorm, this happens in the supermarket: We joke about all the people...

WOW - they really weren't kidding when they predicted widespread power outages! We got about 12 inches of heavy wet snow. The branches i...

Stop the snow! This is the end of our street. There's a road under there somewhere! (More snow forecast for Feb 21st - at least it...

There's nothing quite like being woken up by an insistent beeping, realizing it's not your alarm clock and then figuring out it is s...

Following up to the last post . . . I went out to the compost bin yesterday.  I followed the path that DH had snowblowed across the lawn ...

We try to be good about recycling as much as we can - we have several containers in the garage for paper, plastic glass and so on and most o...

One of the things my husband was hoping to avoid when we moved house was having to do too much raking in the fall. Our old house was surroun...

As it's MLK Day, there is no school today. I was determined not to have the children stay inside watching TV all day (as they would if I...

Americans who live in the snow belt always laugh when the UK grinds to a halt because of an inch or so of snow. I was ready to do the same t...

I remember a January day my very first winter in New England - walking across the quiet, almost empty, university campus and really enjoying...

It didn't start snowing until almost 1 o'clock this afternoon, but school was cancelled for the day anyway. The kids and I had a laz...

Since the weekend, I've come to the conclusion it's not really the snow I dislike so much about winter. When it snows, I simply stay...

the Snow Queen and get rid of her? It's looking much too much like Narnia before the thaw around here! This photo was taken last Saturda...