How to Prepare for a Blizzard

It's on its way! The big snow! I'm sure the bread, water, and milk will be flying off the shelves today. Personally, I will be buying dog food and ice. Yep, ice. Weird thing to buy before a blizzard huh? Not if you are having a party the night before the blizzard! My party is this evening. I have already made my Hello Dollies/magic cookie bars...whatever you want to call them. Now I am just trying to keep the two vultures I live with out of them! I tweaked the Christmas tree with some more decorations...you know me and my Christmas tree decorating issues! I cleaned the dog's kennel out so it wouldn't stink up the garage on the slight chance someone may need to go out there for something, and I've made arrangements to ship the little and the old out of the house for the evening! I actually tried to ship them out first thing this morning but my mom wasn't going for it.

I received a special package in the mail today! Tommie, from Tuesday Update, sent me a little bit of Texas and I love it! It will go right on the front of my tree where everyone can see it! If you haven't visited her blog you should! She is a wonderful friend, wife, mom, and organizer! Go see her soon, her husband comes home from Iraq in a few days and she may be too busy to update for a while. I am hoping to see pictures of the reunion and the happy happy faces of her children when they see their daddy again. I can only imagine how excited she must be so I thank her for taking time to send me a little something to brighten my day! Internet friends are the best! Just so Angi doesn't get her panties in a bunch..."in person" friends are the best too!


Now back to our regularly sceduled post...What do you do when a blizzard is on the way? Well, if you are my mom, you try to burn wet leaves in the driveway. Why? Who knows!!! Who knows why she does half the stuff she does! I'm sure it is becaue Grammy mentioned it and mom knows it will now be the topic of discussion until it gets done but come on! Wet leaves don't burn woman! I saw the happenings going on in the driveway and raced out there with my trusty camera in hand to capture the moment for the other half of "Lucy and Ethel" who lives in Colorado. Yeah, Dona, I'm talking 'bout you because you know if you were here you would be right there next to her! My mom and her sister are exactly like Lucy and Ethel...when they were kids they were called Westinghouse and GE but that's a whole other story about child labor I won't get into now.










All I know is when Mom came out of the garage dragging the box my new computer desk came in I left the scene. I heard a lot of banging and the leaf blower going later but I was too scared to look out the window to see what the situation was. She could have picked a day I wasn't having a party to indulge in her pyro adventures. The whole house smells like burnt wet leaves now. Yummy!

I'm off to rescue Angi from the old folks home she is running over in the Woods now. We have a mission to accomplish before I have to be back to finish the preparations for the festivities this evening. With the amount of bottles I have sitting on the kitchen counter there just may be interesting pictures to follow...in a day or two...or four.