What a Face....

A couple of weeks ago i posted a couple of pictures of two Teddy Bears my Mom made for her great grand son's.Yesterday i received a package that contained mine:

The pics really don't do him justice. Each of these lovingly handmade bears is different, with their on little personality. The little glasses didn't initially go with him but when i saw him i thought they where just right for his little face.

I love my little bear. He sits on the sofa beside me and watches me knit.

My Mom send me all the patterns and instructions to make these little fellows. I will shop around for material and over the summer start making them.

First though i will practice by making several out of plain fabric.These bears are 100% hand sewn, and i mean hand, no sewing machine involved here. It is really amazing that my Mom can still do this, after all she just turned 80 a couple of weeks ago.

Snow wise we got close to 12 inches here beginning of the week,

not much for the northern parts of the country but crippling for Alabama.Not so much if you have a four wheel drive :)

Luckily we got the snow and not the ice like the folks further south.Since it's been freezing all week most of it is still on the ground , the roads are passable though.I know a lot of people complained about it ( not the school kids though , they've been out all week), i thoroughly enjoyed it. This is the most snow I've had since i was a very young teenager.

HAHA!!! WE GOT SNOW!!!

I love snow!! Everything looks so clean and pure with a layer of fresh snow on it.

So when they started talking about snow showers at the beginning of last week for the weekend i got all exited (so did hubster, he loves it even more).

As the week progressed it went from hit and miss snow showers with no accumulation to a full blown snow storm ! I kept my tv tuned to the weather channel all day saturday, watching the radar showing the snow getting closer and closer. By 4pm we had a winter weather warning . ALL RIGHT!!

It was supposed to hit our area sometime around midnight.

I didn't want to miss it so i stayed up (hubster went to bed about 10:30, i guess he doesn't love it that much !!)

Well it got 11:00 and 12:00 and 12:30 and the next thing i knew i woke up at 2 am ,looked out the window , NOTHING!!

So i went to bed too.

But when we got up in the morning we saw this:

YIHAWWW!! PLAYTIME!! We took our fourwheeldrive truck and went sight seeing.We got down the mountain without a problem ,on the highway to town we saw several vehicles in the ditch, one of them was even rolled over on its back !

Why can't people slow down??

The ducks weren't impressed at all:

but the stupid chickens did not come out of they're tree until late afternoon :

we had a good time ,it's all gone now and we are looking forward to spring (my most favorite time of the year :)