Tons of snow and more to come

On Friday we got lots of snow as the weather man promised. When we got up Saturday we had about 7 inches but as there was also lots of wind a lot had drifted so in some areas we had over a foot of the stuff. We decided to go out on Saturday as another big storm was forecast for Sunday and another on Christmas Eve.

We did some grocery shopping and I also wanted to buy some hair curlers. I ended up in Walmart as they had them on sale and I purchased some. When I got home I opened the box and found that the electric cable was all over the place instead of being tied neatly as you would normally find. I then noticed there were no instructions etc in the box. When I looked at the product itself I found lots of long dark hairs wrapped round it – yuk! Talk about turn my stomach – I had been sold a second-hand product. On Monday, once the second storm has passed I will be taking this straight back with a very big complaint. I am furious about this and someone there is going to get an earful from me. Just imagine if this had been a present and I had not checked inside the box first – I doesn’t bare thinking about.

Whilst out I also purchased Animal Crossing: City Folk for my Wii (sealed and definitely new) so I will be playing on this over the weekend.

Anyway, I’ll calm down now and tell you about a new bird we had in our garden. The other day hubby noticed a large flock of birds swoop in but he did not have time to identify them before they flew off. Well, they came back and we managed to get some distant photos of them, but it was enough to identify them. They are cedar waxwings and there were lots of them. Strangely they were accompanied by quite a few robins. They were obviously all together. Here are some pics which are not very good due to the distance.

We also spotted a meadow vole the other night. We knew we had them in the area as they tunnel under the snow and leave trails which you can see when the snow start to thaw. The other night was the first time we had seen them but it was too dark to get a photo.

Speaking of photos, I bought hubby a new camera for Christmas and these are some pics he took yesterday of chickadees.

And this one looks like he has had a bad hair day!

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