It's A Winter-ful Life

Hello friends and hello Monday. Linking with Holly (Pink Lady) and Sarah (Sunshine and Books) today for their weekend catch up blog hop. 

So. It snowed. It has been below freezing all weekend long. In South Carolina. Not cool. 

I mean it was actually really really cool, but that's not cool. We Palmetto people like our warm temps and life lived outdoors and occasionally a boat ride mid-winter. Instead we have an icy driveway, frosty fingertips, and lots of time spent at home. I'm not complaining (much) because I love cozy at home days, but I also love getting out and about, and we haven't had a lot of that these past two weekends. 

Wait. Friday we were out and about. Hubs and I had a date. It wasn't a day date, but it definitely still counts. 

Let's back up and capture the whole weekend. There was still a fair amount of ice around all week following last weekend's ice storm, but I could get in and out of the driveway without a problem. We had snow in the forecast so I re-stocked groceries on my way home from my volunteer slot on Thursday afternoon. We went out to dinner that evening with some neighbors we hadn't spent time with in a long while and that was really nice. 

Friday morning I had an appointment to have my hair cut and then my stylist also worked her magic to make it look sun-kissed. It takes half a day but it's worth it. I came home and got straight into some make ahead cooking just in case we had power issues with this second storm. The forecasters were calling for actual snow, and  didn't seem too terribly worried about power outages, but still it's best to be prepared. 

I made a pot of beef stew and a pot of chicken noodle soup and even though we never lost power we enjoyed these dishes all weekend long. I loved having food prepared and not having to cook over the weekend. I should do more of that in all types of weather. 

Friday night hubs and I went to a nearby venue to see the band Lonestar. Raise your hand if you listened to country music in the 90's and 00's and you remember Lonestar. Their biggest hit was a song called Amazed and I think it became a wedding song for a lot of couples who married back in those decades. 

Anyway, this venue is so nice. It's smallish and we were just four rows from the band. The seats are comfortable and parking for a show here is not a problem. I realize all of that makes me sound old, but whatever. 

We enjoyed the performance so much. They're really talented musicians, the guitar player especially. They sang all my old favorites, which took me right back to living beside the Bay, little girls in the house, weekends spent boating with friends,  and country music on the radio. Sigh. 

There are still three original members of Lonestar  with the group, and then two members who joined later but have been with them a while. The keyboardist was the 'boss' and he was funny and had a great rapport with the audience. 

Did I sing along? How could I not? Hubs used to travel a lot with work (always, but particularly often in the 90's), and Lonestar's song,  'I'm Already There' especially makes me think of that season of life. 

Where was I? 

Oh yeah, the weather. We woke up to light snow falling Saturday morning, and it grew heavier as the day went on. We ended up with somewhere between two and three inches I think and that's a lot for our area. 

Somebody loved it. 

Hubs took the little brown dog out to play and he ends up with all these little ice balls stuck to his fur which means he has to be dried and cleaned off afterwards, but he LOVES it. 

Hubs used the leaf blower to get some of the snow off the driveway. It was light and we no longer own a snow shovel so there's that. We watched Clemson basketball and read books and chatted, then had stew for dinner. After dinner it was Tennessee basketball and early to bed. 

Just like the Pioneers. 

Sort of like the Pioneers. 

Not really like the Pioneers except we are going to bed early. 

We knew church was cancelled for Sunday, as were I think all or almost all of the churches in our county, and schools are closed again today. I spent time Sunday morning digging in to the Wayne Grudem book I'm working through this year (Sytematic Theology). It's excellent, but it's not light and requires every ounce of concentration I can muster. A quiet Sunday morning was perfect for this. 

I cleaned out my dresser drawers and the drawers in my bathroom vanity this weekend, did some laundry, and hubs ran the vacuum so a few things did get done that needed doing. 

Mostly though it's quiet, beautiful, slick, and only 47 days until Spring. 

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