Mrs.J

Thanks all currently the snow removal for our neighborhood is having a blast with the little front end loader on my square. Live in the way back of the neighborhood where the townhomes are. As our road is not cleared by the county we pay to have it cleared. Always a way better job as when we get to the start of our street with the single family homes there is usually a one lane pass by plows. Clearing out the end of the drives as well.

Making curry on this chilly gray day.

We all have that thing that keeps us sane. So glad you found running to be that thing. And showing your kids that is a good thing also.

Mr J and I just cleared the drive. About a 1/4” sleet covered by about 3” of snow covered with about another 1/4” sleet. Felt like we were shoveling sawdust.

Birds at the feeder keep coming grabbing some seed and taking off. They are probably like damb this stuff hurts!

24.2/22 with a mix of pixie dust snow and graupel here.

Honestly by that time all who want a vaccine will have gotten it.

I also grew up with Walleye. I really like fresh water fish.

This right here is a good suggestion. When in doubt always post in banter. That is what I do. That's a deal. Would be nice to have one this year.

Ok I need to check that out. Older Miss J will be a senior next year and we are going to start looking at colleges. She wants to check out St. Mary's Honors College. We have never been down to that part of MD so looking forward to it.

Where can you get white perch?!?!? I used to live close to Lake Erie and we would go out and get a load of yellow perch and have a huge fish fry. Have not had perch in sometime though.

So true. All the snow is melted off the deck now so just sent Mr J out to refill the cat cable.

Never went to my prom. Was in band, an artist, and an introvert. Think of the Ally Sheedy character in Breakfast club.

Game table mostly done. Need to still add the gear pulls when I get them. It is a used IKEA table I got off of FB marketplace for $40. $30 worth of milk paint and black wax, sand paper, and my design with help from Mr. J on the gear registry. Chairs are those outside aluminum type that I got an amazing deal on. It is the first time I have used wax to protect let alone tinted. But it gave the paint a nice patina especially on the top.

I used to get made fun of from my family when I was a kid and TWC launched. I watched it like a normal teenager would bing MTV back then.

I will tell you what. The siren alert on Carrot Weather App can literally scare the crap out of you when it goes off!

Yea to you both! As a cancer survivor I am slated for phase 2. Mr. J will be in with the "healthy" folks. Was thinking about my most memorable winter event and realized it does not deal with snow at all. In college I was a commuter to BGSU in OH. Did not have the funds to be able to live on campus. Anyways was in my Jr. year and I needed to take a humanities class and found out that Severe and Unusual Weather was under that umbrella. Don't ask me why don't remember. I do remember the profs name though Dr. Glen Fry. It was just the start of spring semester around February. Growing up in NW OH I am used to snow every winter. But that one winter we had a huge sleet dump. I was driving back home on I-75 and remember slugging through about an inch of sleet that was raining down. The next time I had my Severe weather class we spent the entire session on the sleet that piled up. Going to a university that had a cemetery in the middle of it, freight train tracks on one side of it, I-75 on the other, with bars just over the tracks. The National Tractor Pull every August and windy weather all year long, the sleet was the big thing.

Being that most of the time I just don’t understand all that goes into tracking, I am the same way. I am happy just being an observer at the ground level and letting my eyes help those confirm what they are tracking.

I completely agree with this statement. On another note darn today was brutal out. The younger Miss J had a lesson at an indoor arena this afternoon. The only thing an indoor does is keep you dry in the winter. I swear that wind seeped through the walls. My toes were numb.

I can see the !!

Here is the registry all placed and ready to paint tomorrow. I may even have it all finished by tomorrow. Minus the gear pulls on the side.

I am taking a table I got for $40 for a games table. I am working on painting it with milk paint and do a Steampunk theme. Hope to have it done the end of this week.

Starting my project I showed last week. One of my favorite things hand cutting out a registry. 16 to do.

So took the family to New Orleans tonight. A spot on to taste recipe of Shrimp Creole. Mr. J raved over it. While a decent amount of prep it was very quick to put together for serving.

I meant trade snow for storms. Yes certain areas of Frederick have had severe storms and even tornadoes. I am not saying I want that, it is more of I want garden variety storms. I love the roll of thunder. My particular area in Frederick Co though does get split more often than others. I am closer to the Potomac and storms that come across at Point of Rocks seem to split quite often. I have many times seen a storm come into MD and get excited, only to watch it slip just to my N or S. We seem to do better when the storms are pushing down from PA and the MD panhandle than storms coming up from the SW in particular. But I am glad to hear that our reports up here help you. I became a spotter because of the lack of weather coverage we get up here sometimes. Growing up near Toledo, OH we had a very good weather group on the local stations. When I first moved here I was disappointed in the major local news weather reporting. As many times we would get hit with weather and there be no info until the said weather event made it into MoCo and close to Baltimore. I took the spotter class so that I could be a set of eyes on the ground up here and alert people I know. I even one time was called by the NWS in the middle of a particularly violent storm coming down from PA to help them confirm what they were seeing on radar so they could warn the storm. That was my proud weather moment. I am not the most knowledgeable weather person when it comes to maps and outlooks. My dyslexia holds me back on that front. But I love being an observer and spotter. Dyslexics do better visually anyways.