Snow day Thursday. Made a beautiful bone broth Friday. Roasted two small organic chickens. Made falafel and all the extras, ...cucumber (tzatziki), hummus, slaw.

Today making a big pot o' chili. Getting a couple more inches starting right now.

Cute homemade plow, dcarch! One of these days I may talk to you about a special tool I want for weaving willow. :)

yes, the snow is starting here too... they're forecasting 8-12" or more for us today. That's depressing enough -- I can't imagine facing a forecast of up to 48". I wish you luck, agmss!!! And I do the same as you -- storm days are for baking breads, making soup, maybe baking something sweet. Now that you mention it, I'll probably put on a pot of beans for soup later. :)

Ahhh wildlife -

I like dainty little rodent tracks in snow. The rodents themselves less so. I have seen some large dog/coyote tracks in my woods. I regularly hear but don't see coyotes.

Between my mom's and my place we have some stressed out cats. There is a feisty aggressive spraying male stray hanging out at her house. Between the tracks I saw and the cat - ours are behaving very oddly.

And then in Maine we have the semi-mythical fisher cat. I say mythical because I have never seen one. And they are blamed for any missing cats and all sorts of other mischief. My dad met one in the middle of the night with his cat in it's jaws one night. The cat was rescued but my dad said it was a solid muscular unintimidated creature. All predator.

Going to 78F today - just in time to wake up all the buds on the flowering trees (cherry, almond, pear) and kill them with 30's and 40F's predicted for the rest of the week. North Carolina weather - orange salsa and fish taco's one day, chili and hasselback potatoes the next.

Strange winter for us here. We had cold temps earlier than normal, and predictions that we would have a really cold winter. Recent weeks have been very mild temps though, I think it got close to 75 deg one day last week, many days in the 60s. Plenty of rain, but definitely no snow. Every once in a while Mother Nature throws in a cold day, then back to this. Fruit trees are budding out, I noticed one of my early blueberry bushes is budding. Not sure how much fruit I'll get this year. No cold weather predicted for the next week or so, but plenty of time to change. I still see tracks though...deer & possum leave their muddy trail on our driveway. I'm craving chili & soup, but not really that kind of weather.

We moved right after Christmas, which ment we went from 18 degree weather to 70 degree weather...... We moved to Arizona.

Such cute dogs, agmss15.

It's 77 degrees here in central Virginia!! We went for a motorcycle ride on the Blue Ridge Parkway! Probably another record breaking high. Now I have to go and wash off the motorcycle.

Very weird weather here too. December had normal snow fall, January nothing and now February is running warmer than normal. Today and the rest of the week we are close to or over 50, the weekend will be 65! They say the bottom falls out after next Monday but don't say how.....I am betting on a blizzard.

Cute pup you have there! Rub some vaseline on the paws to help protect from the cold snow and ground.

My weather is a lot like Peppi's, just across The Lake. Today, though, there are 20 MPH winds, and on Thursday it's in the 20s, but it'll be in the 50s by the weekend. We've had rain, ice, thundersnow, some more snow, everything melts, then more snow.

I picked collard greens left from the garden just before Christmas and the parsley and sage are still green under each dusting of snow. Very strange winter....

So, what do I cook in a blizzard? I usually like to bake bread and make soup or chili. However, Elery is trying to eat more healthy foods, so I haven't baked bread since right after Christmas. It's a good thing there's no blizzard coming here!

Annie

Love the pictures and envy the beautiful snow, an opportunity to luxuriate in one's home that we're missing here in central Florida. Temps are up and down here also. As low as in the 20s just long enough to damage winter bloom and delicate foliages but mostly swinging from the high 30s-40s-50s up to 70s-80s. At 4 this morning it was in the high 60s thanks to cloud cover and I was sitting on the patio listening to the night life out in the marsh. Yesterday 40s and we were surrounded by heavy mist lit by what moonlight made it through.

"Blizzard" cooking? The best chicken salad I've made so far pre-dresses baked white chicken with very flavorful pan juices, so I'm going to try that again. Grapes, greens, wine, patio. Nice, but cooking up a storm in a blizzard sounds wonderful. Enjoy!

We had more snow. 3-4inches on top of the 8. Sleet for a while, now wind. Winter wind is 'jumpy' as the pups bark, branches fall on the roof sounding like a knock on the door....squeezed my tiny car into the garage. phew

A few hours ago - still snowing and blowing now. I think we got to 24" although it is hard to tell because of drifting. I dug out to the woodshed and was working towards my car when my plow guy came through for a preliminary plowing.

Meanwhile inside chicken stock is simmering for making a pot of Borsht later. Fresh rolls done. Power is still on for now.