• Home,  Nashville,  Weather

    Snowed In Days and Anxiety Getting Out In It

    Well the snow arrived. Sharing some pics. You can see that we’ve managed to walk around the house! I think we had 5 or 6 inches or so.  Here’s the graveyard in the woods behind us. Here’s my office set up at home. I got a lot done yesterday. No interruptions much and not much email. I got our weekly taxes paid, stuffed the check stubs for our TN plant. Paid the federal taxes, worked on my garnishment reconciliation.  Monday I was able to make the switcheroo on my white board in my office to list the goals for the year. Where you see dashes are spaces for me to X off (ie. use my camera…

  • Family,  Food,  Weather

    Last Minute Adventure, Thai Experience, and Snowed In For a Bit

    The day after Christmas, more snow began falling. It was not forecasted ahead of time and when it was it was an advisory – maybe a dusting to an inch, might cause a few little problems – no big deal. Riiiiggghhhhtttt! It was almost as bad as the first one. However, the main roads quickly recovered. Our driveway and neighborhood roads did not. By 4:00 p.m. Katy and Cody decided that we could make it to go see the Christmas lights at a farm a few miles away. It’s a drive thru place where you can pay $20 a car load. I had no idea that on the 26th of…

  • Blogmas,  Christmas,  Family,  Food,  Holidays,  Weather

    Prepping for Christmas, Fruit Basket Gifts, and Snow and Ice Changing our Plans

    Blogmas Day 23 finds us with a wonderful day off. I slept in for an hour or so, fixed coffee, started the laundry, and fixed fruit baskets for some gifts we needed to deliver today. I made the sausage balls and cleaned off the table and decorated it for Christmas Eve dinner which is now turned into lunch (more on that coming). Katy called and we decided to meet at ML Rose for lunch. We made it fine. The roads were snowy/icy but it was kindof a dry type of ice and not the slippery kind we normally get. I imagine this to be much like the snows up north,…