We had snow early yesterday morning, but it was short lived.
Many areas were forecasted to have a massive winter snow, but the outlook didn’t show us getting very much if any of the white stuff.
When I got up early yesterday morning I couldn’t resist turning on the back porch light and looking to see if it had snowed like I did when I was a girl. The deck was bare and there wasn’t a flake in sight and even though I didn’t think it would snow I was still a little disappointed. 🙂
A short time later The Deer Hunter and I were drinking our morning cup of coffee and postum when he got up and looked out the window. He said “It’s really snowing, the ground is about white. Reckon I should take a vehicle to the bottom?”
I thought he was teasing me but finally he convinced me to look outside and see for myself. The snow was just a pouring down. It was so pretty!
Before long there was about two inches of snow. The temperature was right at freezing. Once the sun tried to shine through the gloom the temperature rose well above freezing and the snow was quickly gone.
It was a wet snow that really held onto all the trees making it especially pretty while it lasted. I’ve read in certain areas a snow that falls and melts quickly is called an onion snow because those types of snows typically happen in spring of the year when onion planting has just occurred or is about to happen.
Last night’s video: Last Year’s Pumpkin, Cabbage Stew, Cornbread & Tomato Juice I Forgot I Canned.
Tipper
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An onion snow! That’s a new one for me, I’ll try to remember it. We’ve had a mix of icy and fluffy snow here in Nova Scotia, my first year living here since I was a teenager. Much prefer the lighter snow for shoveling. 🙂
With the forecast saying 3 or 4 inches of snow for Wednesday 3-19- 25 and Thursday 2-20-25, for the Bassett Va area, we only got about 1/2 an inch of snow on Wednesday. and Thursday maybe a dusting of the white stuff. But it was so very pretty. Wanted to say Happy Birthday to you Randy, and may your day be blessed. I look forward every day to reading your precious & exciting comments. Randy may the Lord God Keep you safe and well always. Happy Birthday to anyone else that I may have missed. Love all of y’all on the BP&TA Family. Please stay extra warm.
I just watched your video from last evening and it made me want soup. So I just made your cabbage patch stew using ground venison that I had on hand. It was delicious with homemade bread I just baked on a cold day like today. Thanks for the great recipe idea!
Happy birthday Randy!! I love to read your posts and hope you had a good day. I will be 70 my next birthday and I feel your pain about not being able to do things we used to do. But we still chug along. Enjoy your cake and your day. Love and prayers to Granny and all of you too!!
Happy Birthday to Randy and Debbie. And prayers for Kourtni.
Such a simple, delicious meal on a cold winter’s night. I still enjoy making the candyroaster cookies that you shared on your blog. Thank you!
Good morning! Congratulations on your pretty surprise snow ! For some reason today’s post was not in my inbox , so I was glad to find you here & that all was well ! Love & Blessings to you all !
Yesterday we had some of it all. It started with some freezing rain, sleet and then snow. About three hours later, it started sleeting again and finally ended with snow. It’s so cold and cloudy here that nothing much has melted. Our driveway is a sheet of ice. Hoping for warmer weather tomorrow.
Happy Birthday Randy! Mine was yesterday and I remember mama telling me that when I was born there was snow on the ground. Yesterday was the first time I have ever seen it actually snow on my birthday and even though I am not a snow person, I thought it was special. Hope you have a wonderful day!!
Gloria-a late happy birthday to you 🙂
Happy Birthday Randy.
Here in Pitt county NC, it snowed most of yesterday but was mostly what i have always heard called hominy snow small icy balls. Does anyone else call this hominy snow. I wonder if it’s because it resembles hominy grits.
“Onion snow” is a new one on me. I like it!
your snow looks about like what I got here where I live in Shawnee OK but oh my how the temps dropped this week—right now it is 7 degrees with a ‘feels like’ temperature of 1…..I have had to have faucets not just dripping but actually on with a big stream because a drip would have frozen….I think the temps will rise a little tomorrow and might get to turn faucets off during the day but back on at night and then the weekend will start a nice warming trend so will be able to turn the off for good and possibly no more below freezing temperatures this year (well until winter months come around again) I as always enjoyed last nights video and also as always I watch you eating pumpkin pie and loving the heck out of it and you and Mat make it sound so good but I just can not stand pumpkin pie—-and I try every year to like it but at 69 even though my tastebuds have changed I Still dislike pumpkin pie.
My husband woke me up yesterday at 7:15 to tell me we had snow. It was so pretty, the way it covered all the trees. Every twig on every branch on every tree had a pillowy white blanket. I watched the birds outside my dining room window and a mockingbird was puffed up so round, I didn’t recognize it until it spread its wings. When a male cardinal and a bluebird were sitting in the nearest branches to me, I just admired them until 4 more bluebirds joined them. So I brought up an old feeder I had made from a half gallon milk jug and hung it on my window, filled with some suet nuggets. The rest of the day we had chickadees and tufted titmice, along with mockers, cardinals, and bluebirds, picking up their take-away meals. I was surprised to see the use-by date on the milk jug was February 7, 2011. It’s been hanging in the basement quite a while, just waiting to be useful again.Most of the snow was gone by the afternoon but it sure made our place look like a wonderland while it lasted.
Last night, I watched Corey’s video, and as she talked, snow fell outside her window. I kept my fingers crossed, wishing it would continue snowing for hours, but only if it stayed up Wilson’s Holler. I can’t remember when I last saw any color except white when I looked out my windows. I’ve had enough! Please pray for the people in my hometown, Pikeville, KY, to keep their faith as good folks from all over the country arrive to help them clean up and recover some of their loss.
Happy Birthday, Randy! You are not old! I have a cousin like you who can’t get over losing his wife. He met a lady at church who has helped him get through some rough days. She is there to listen and go to dinner with him without becoming romantically involved. Being the great storyteller you are could be very entertaining for a new friend.
Shirl, you comment about your cousin is something I have been told many times. There is a lifelong friend to both me and my wife at my church that lost her husband about the same time my wife died. We talk to one another a good bit at church. She would be perfect to do those things with but she may feel the same as I do. My mind can’t comprehend ever being with another woman, in the nearly 50 years we were together I never cheated on my wife and even though I was with her until her death, in my mind I would feel like I was cheating on her. My wife would be happy to know I was with this lady.
Happy Birthday Randy!!!!
Happy birthday, Randy. I’ve been 71 also for awhile now and can’t tell any difference from 70. Getting older is a puzzle of a thing, to me anyway. I understand far better now how I should have lived but mostly didn’t. But knowing that and knowing that knowledge is valuable, I don’t know how to use it well either. This may seem odd to you, but your missing your wife and daughter is a lesson to each of us to be more grateful. That doesn’t stop your hurting I know but just know even that has a value that is not going to waste. I believe it was Charles Spurgeon who said, “God does not put His children in the furnace except He be there with them.” My Dad had a saying about life, “I’m a short time here and a long time gone.” Kinda like Tipper’s snow. But we also know, “To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.” I’m still asking that you have unexpected blessing today. Or better yet, be blessed by being a blessing?
#2. Tipper, I hope you see this, but I just want to say you never fail to tell those who ask that you will pray for them. And I believe you pray for others who have not asked when you see their need. I have a time or two felt someone’s prayers for me. I would much rather have someone move God in my behalf than to own this perishing world. God bless your giving heart, sis.
Happy Birthday, Randy! I am 6+ more years older than you. My head and heart keep telling me I can still do things I did just 10 years ago, but my body definintely lets me know otherwise! My beloved hubby passed 16 years ago, and somedays it feels like it was just yesterday and some days longer than 16 years. The edge of rawness tapers down somewhat, but missing his presence is strong and never leaves. Like you, I am thankful for the years God gave us and the treasured memories. I pray everyday to honor his memory by looking forward and not dwelling all the time in past, and that is one of the hardest things for me to do everyday. I believe I can say all the BP readers love you and look forward to your posts.
Good morning Randy….well finally HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU….AND MANY MORE!!!
I looked at my post from yesterday and it’s not showing as posted, SO…please elaborate on the birthday cake with candles. Your such a great writer and I know you will tell the story…so I’m ready to close my eyes and have a great laugh!! Come on you can do it!!
It’s 6 degrees here, wind chill 5…central Oklahoma is a might cold….however by Monday we will be close to 70 degrees!! Talk about a whiplash!
Have a wonderful day and remember to smile and laugh
Prayers to all especially Granny!
Happy birthday Randy!
It snowed just a scuff yesterday, but this morning it’s coming down pretty good. I guess we will have to wait and see how long it lasts. I doubt we will get to much, but I’m staying in to be safe.
My friend’s wife cooked me a cake she called it an ugly cake, (for an ugly man) the icing is on the bottom and the batter is poured on top. It reminds me of a cobbler pie without the fruit filling. I said I am so old, I would have to get a burn permit before I could light the candles. The candles would probably melt the icing. Maybe I could use one large candle with the number of years on it.
Randy, I have made something just a bit different from the “Ugly Cake” you describe. My recipe calls it an “Inside Out” cake. The frosting is mixed in with the cake batter. Coconut pecan icing in a devil’s food cake mix is a particular favorite of ours.
We got only an inch of snow here in west-central Virginia, they said because the system coming out of the west never linked up with the system coming out of the Gulf. Plenty cold here, though; what little we got is not melting at all. The birds have been mobbing their feeders yesterday and today.
Randy, I hope you have a blessed birthday!
Happy Birthday Randy!
Today in Pennsylvania we are getting a skiff of snow. I am looking forward to Spring, but not 90 degree weather and humidity.
The snow you got in Wilson hollow was great for Tipper (the beauty) and also for Granny because it was short-lived.
Have a blessed day everyone!
We’ve got about 1-2 inches here in Henrico county, Virginia. We’re north of Richmond. The southeast part of the state was supposed to get several inches.
Randy,
Sending Happy Birthday wishes from Maine……where we have lots of SNOW and lots of COLD!! May the coming year be filled with many blessings, steadfast friendships, and most of all, a happy heart!! God bless you!
Jackie
Happy Birthday, Randy.
I am in Willow Spring, NC about 20 miles south of Raleigh. We got a light snow yesterday along with freezing rain.
It looks like north GA received about the same amount of snow as NW Alabama. We got maybe 3/4″. It was a fine/wet snow that would not have hung around very long had it not been for dropping temps during the day. It is cold this morning 18F as I write this at 8:00 a.m. There were still some white spots from yesterday’s snow. We have large “goose feather” size snowflakes falling in the gray morning light this morning, but it won’t amount to anything. It was 70 F Sunday and single digit windchill factors this morning and temps are forecast to be near 70 again by the middle of next week. My electric meter and fireplace anxiously await the break. Stay warm and God Bless.
Jeffery
It’s snowing in southern middle Tn right now and the sun keeps peeking through as well. Strange. It’s covered the driveway in white overnight but we still didn’t get much. It is pretty and temps in the teens. I’m thankful
I can stay inside.
Randy, I also wish you a happy birthday. You have been so fortunate to have had such a good wife and family. I would give anything to have had that. I had to pull myself out of one of those holes of despair several years ago in order to go on with life and am determined that I am not going to let another’s mistakes and poor choices ruin the rest of my life. I will be 75 in a few months. It’s hard to realize the special friends and family who are no longer here and those days of family gatherings will never be again but that is what is supposed to happen. I get frustrated that I can’t physically do what I once could, don’t have family close enough to help and hate to ask friends. I can’t help how I look in the mirror now and just contribute that to life. I hope you can find at least a little joy in every day and the good memories you have. You write so well and if you can restore those Coleman lanterns, that is a talent a lot of people would want to have. It’s a good thing I don’t live closer or I would aggravate you for advice on how to fix a lot of things I have that need fixing. I’ll bet you can fix more than lanterns. We readers of the Blind Pig are family and I hope you continue to write. I enjoy reading your posts. Eat some cake for me too!
Sallie, I was blessed with being able to build, fix, or repair a good many things. I still try to fix as much as I can while sitting on an old knee high bar stool I drag around with me. I like to say being poor and not being able to pay someone to do it for you, is strong motivation for becoming a do it yourselfer. I will let you in on a trick I used for cleaning the old black colored brass on the lanterns, soak it in a strong mixture of Kool Aid and then polish it with triple ought to 4 ought steel wool. I like to to use the lemonade flavored packs. It is the citric acid in the Kool Aid that is the secret. Drink Kool Aid and you will have clean guts when you die! I have some newer models but don’t collect or restore anything newer than about 1985. Coleman went to a lot of plastic on the newer lanterns about that time.
I feel like we have had a “long lived snow” here in the mountains of WV. I love winter and snow, but the super cold temperatures are starting to get to me…just a little. It’s 11 this morning and we got a little more snow last night. School is canceled again because of the cold and bad road conditions. You have made me so anxious to get out and plant onions by mentioning an onion snow. It will be a while though. Our ground is very frozen. Hubby just came in from fixing the fire in our outdoor wood stove. He said the snow is very crunchy this morning. It’s still a nice morning for a second cup of coffee—I think I will bake us a couple loaves of bread.
Heavy, wet snowfalls are my favorite. They are so beautiful. I love to think of you enjoying it with your morning cups of coffee/postum. If we are predicted to get snow up here in WI, I too, turn the lights on with excitement in the morning to see the fresh snowfall. 🙂 Thanks, Tipper. 🙂
I wish our snow in Chapel Hill had been like yours, Tipper. I don’t enjoy it anymore. It snowed for hours. There’s probably “only” 3″ but it stayed in the 20s and might barely get above freezing today. It’ll be around for days and will wreak havoc with the college baseball schedule! They were supposed to have a split series with ECU this weekend, first game in Greenville, 2nd at the Durham Bulls park and 3rd here, starting on Friday. But Greenville even got sleet and freezing rain and cold temps, and it won’t melt soon here or Durham.
We had about the same as you, Tipper. There is still some snow hanging on the trees and a little on the grass, but thank goodness the roads are clear.
Happy Birthday Randy. I read your post about your wife. I think I’ll go hug my husband! He’s in the kitchen cleaning up a coffee maker mishap. I so enjoy reading everyone’s posts. You are all wonderful folks.
Happy birthday Randy! I turned 76 five days ago. I thank God for seventy-six years. He has been in my life since the age of 13. I’ve been thinking a lot about the many, many people that I have known and that are now gone. You’re right Randy when you said, “you know you are old when you have about as many lifelong friends underground as you do on top of the ground.” My husband just lost his aunt and uncle recently, she died Jan. 31, and he died Feb. 11, within 11 days of each other. They were in their 90’s. All of our aunts and uncles are gone now. We only have cousins living. We had about three inches of snow in the last few days. It’s lightly snowing now and 23 degrees. After the last snow and ice melted, I see that my daffodils are coming up. Last year they were blooming at this time. I am excited about spring coming, it is my favorite season.
Tricia-a late happy birthday to you 🙂
Thank you, Tipper.
We got 12 inches of snow here in Virginia Beach. It reminds me of the mountains when I was a child. We used to get deep snows. I grew up in a holler in the foothills of the Rlue Ridge mountains. I remember one time we were out of school for two weeks and no power. We survived by having a wood cook stove and a spring. My mother would can hundreds of jars of food.
Thank all of you for the birthday wishes. My wife’s death has left a hole in my life that will never heal until I close my eyes on earth for the last time. I wrote on Valentine’s Day about us not making a big deal out of these type of days such as our birthdays. The dog we now have was born on Father’s Day. He swallowed some string from one of his toys that blocked his intestines and had to have surgery about a month before he was one year old. On Father’s Day and his birthday my wife brought him a big cupcake home from the Walmart bakery after not giving me anything on my birthday or Father’s Day. I teased her unmercifully about about her loving the dog more than me. She brought me a cupcake just like the one she gave the dog on my next birthday! I enjoyed teasing her a lot more than the cake. She would give me her trademark grin or smile when I was teasing her, she knew it was all in fun. Lord I would give everything I own for one more time like this with her.
Happy Birthday, Randy! I hope you have a special & blessed day. I always look forward to reading your comments. I know your heart is broken, but hang in there-Glory is coming as our Lord has promised! A friend from Mississippi.
It snowed all day here but it was so light that even if it hadn’t been 38º it wouldn’t have amounted to nothing. This morning is different! It’s snowing heavier and is starting to accumulate. We’ll just have to see what happens.
First off Happy 71 Birthday to Randy! That’s a milestone to be proud of, friend! Here’s wishes and prayers for good health and a dose of vigor! Here in WV, I’d have to say snow is one of those bad four letter words we don’t use around here. This white stuff has been heavy and wet and flooded out and mudslided a good portion of the counties around here and especially WELCH, WV and GRUNDY, VA from what I have heard and seen. I’d say we have 5 inches out there right now and it keeps falling relentlessly really since Jan. 1. We don’t get walloped every year but about every 4 years or so, we get a rough winter. I was surveying the woods around here and the devastation of trees mainly hickory and oak will take 30 years to recover… As all that dead wood lays just rotting, the woods will die out and insects take over especially the rogue pine beetle who came from overseas and is killing the giant HEMLOCKS with no forestry able, motivated or equipped to stop the major die off of the greatest trees we have, but don’t worry, they eat OAK too!!!! Have a great day enjoying snow, but I will be watching COLUMBO (yep ugly raincoat one more thing guy from 1972) back to back as much of my day as possible.
Happy Birthday Mr Randy, I always love reading your comments and stories. Thank you Tipper for the BPAA and for letting us live a little of the Appalachian life through you. Y’all have a blessed day.
Randy you may be older but you are much wiser.
I don’t know about that! I think calling me crazy would be a compliment.
We got rain here in North Georgia, no snow here.
Please pray for me.
Kourtni-I will pray for you.
Kourtni, I am praying for you.
no snow, just cold
Dear Randy,
Happy birthday .
And so sorry for your loss. I know holidays are hard and will always be but in my experience it does help to try to hold onto good memories shared and try to let go of the hurt because in that way I am sending/sharing love and not pain with my loved ones lost.
Dear Tipper,
I sure wish I had to turn on the porch light to see if it snowed. I’m on the edge of town but still the “light pollution” prevents me from even seeing stars most nights. Snow still sticking here but too cold to enjoy so have a huge roaster full of bone broth ready to can to warm up the kitchen. And me!
It was predicted for me to have a cold rain yesterday, I didn’t get enough to wet my deck. I think other areas closer to the NC line saw some snow but it didn’t amount to much. I once heard it said a short time snow was like a good girlfriend, it stayed a short time and then left. Maybe another small, short lived chance of snow this morning but about 35 degrees high and 18 degrees tonight.
Today I am a year older, more rusty and stiffer than yesterday, there has been no improvement in my uglier than homemade sin looks. My dear mother never failed to tell me about the bad thunderstorms in the Anderson, SC area 71 years ago today when I was born. Daddy just talked about the doctor out running/ beating the ambulance from Belton to the Anderson hospital.
Jim Casada touched on this in his February newsletter. I have been awake for several hours during the night and thinking about this. I am 71 years old today and realize I am old and am no longer able to do many things I once could do. I look back on my life and think of how good it has been. It makes me sad to think of the many, many members of both mine and my wife’s family, friends, coworkers, and others that have been a part of my life in someway that are no living it seems like everyday I hear of another one passing or having a life threatening sickness. I think of something my father in law said to me, “you know you are old when you have about as many lifelong friends underground as you do on top of the ground.” Now I understand. I want to thank Tipper and all of the BPA members for the joy and happiness you bring to me each day.
Donna, look back to yesterday’s comment and read about my birthday cake my friend’s wife baked for me and the problem I would have with candles.
Randy-Happy Birthday!!
Happy Birthday, Randy!
On Sunday I will be 60. I have grandson due to come that day. Our daughter is ready to pop, so I will be glad when he is here and they are both healthy.
My husband and I are down with the flu. It has truly been awful and we’re not done yet. Today is day 4 and it feels like day 104.
Eat some cake for me too! I pray you find many blessings in your day!
Happy Birthday Randy!!
Hope you have a happy day!
Happy Birthday Randy.
Happy birthday, Randy! I really enjoy your daily posts. You are a blessing to this world. I’m thankful God made you just who you are. The thunderstorm story is interesting! Thanks for sharing it with us. Hope you have a nice day!
Happy Birthday Randy – from the west coast of Canada! 🙂 Blessings.