Hi friends!
Hope you are having a terrific Thursday so far! Mine has been really productive. Which is pretty impressive considering that I haven’t even left the house (I did shower and do my hair though – BONUS!). I got up and did a killer Chest/Shoulders/Biceps workout for an hour (thank you Cathe Friedrich!), then went outside to run the snowblower and shovel (another hour), tested a couple of recipes for future client cookdates, and sold a piece of furniture that I listed almost a month ago on Craigslist. The buyer even drove all the way down from north of Denver to get it. And in this nasty weather:
Brave soul, that one – he didn’t even have 4WD. Just a little Toyota. He did get stuck on our street, so a neighbor, Cory and I pushed and pushed and got him unstuck. He’s giving this item as a gift so I hope the recipient appreciates the lengths to which he went to get it! I sent him with a muffin to snack on on the way home and asked if he needed the ‘facilities’ since he’d been on the road so long. I am sure he thought I was either CRAZY or just abnormally nice (I’d say a little bit of both). Hey, if you buy something from me on Craigslist, show up on time and don’t haggle, I’ll practically invite you for dinner. 
If you look at the photo above, you can somewhat see how that snow is higher than my knees. The news channels say we got about 10″ in our end of town. Cory’s been on snow duty all year so far – I figured he should have a break today since I didn’t have to work (thanks for taking some action shots, C!). I definitely got some cardio going on this – I was a sweaty beast when I was all done with our driveway, the sidewalk on our corner, our steps up to the front, our porch and my neighbor’s sidewalk. I am so thankful for snowblowers! Now if only it was self-propelled – THAT would be awesome!
I had to lean into it to get it going through all that snow!
Totally playin’ in the snow!
Because we knew the storm was headed our way, we moved up our “light viewing drive” to last night – normally we do it on Christmas Eve. We had no idea if we’d end up with a blizzard and be housebound for a few days, so we figured we better get out while we still could. I made a batch of vegan cranberry ‘sour cream’ muffins (adapted from Gena’s version) along with some ginger spice cookies to pack in the car. We hit up the Starbucks drive-through (soy steamer for me, white hot cocoa for him), cranked the Christmas music on the radio, and the viewing party began.
Here are a couple of the good ones (taken with my iPhone because I couldn’t find my camera on the way out the door):
The snow had just started to fall shortly before we took off and as the evening went on, it was getting pretty slick. We saw one car completely miss his turn and slam right into the curb on the OPPOSITE side of the street than he was aiming – at that point we figured we best get ourselves home lest WE become the landing pad instead of the curbs.
It was such a festive night – it’s one of my favorites of our little traditions as a couple. Add to that waking up to all this snow today and I am REALLY in the holiday spirit. I love it!
Are you getting a lot of snow this season where you are? How’s your holiday weather looking? Do you drive around and look at all the decorated houses?
– Shari B. =)
PS: Thanks for all the great feedback on Keri’s guest post! I even got some emails about it in addition to the posted comments. Maybe I convince her to do that for us more often. 
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