A blustery day-Kathe with an E

Snow was predicted but I was up early and we only had about an inch.

The wind picked up and you can't tell if it is snowing again or if the wind is just blowing it around.

Taken from my front door.

Glad I don't have anywhere to go.

Of course HH will be out exploring.

I am watching Monarch of the Glen again.

Just realized Julian Fellows who plays Kilwilly in Monarch is the writer of Downton Abbey.

A very talented man.

The assault on Anna was such a surprise.

I have read a lot of discussion about the scene.

Strange to me that she will hold it from Bates but we have to remember that was the way it would happen all those years ago. 

What are your thoughts on this if you saw it.

Go here to visit Kathe and friends

Shepherd's Pie for dinner.

SS, snow, blizzard

Sepia Saturday
Snow

Courtesy of New York History Museum
Blizzard of 1888

Led blindly by their teachers, schoolchildren gripped makeshift lifelines -- sheets, towels, rugs, a school bell rope -- as they plunged desperately into the blizzard of 1888.
"It came from the northwest with the force of a hurricane. The wind bitterly cold. The snow fine, sharp and penetrating," survivor Ernest Nyrop of Neligh wrote years later. "It was like the finest flour and smothering in its action making breathing very difficult."
The blizzard struck on what began as an unusually mild day. The temperature in Valentine on Jan. 12, 1888, fell from 30 degrees in early morning to 6 degrees below zero by mid-afternoon, and the cold hit a bone-chilling 35 below the next two nights.
Farmers tunneled into haystacks to stay alive. Teachers tied young students to ropes so they wouldn't wander while stumbling through driving snow. Men and women groped houses in search of doors.
Raging winds banged shutters, battered walls and shook buildings. Some believed it was an earthquake. The noise caused young children to scream and brought older students to tears. It lasted 12 to 18 hours.
No one knows the exact death toll. Historians estimate at least 235 perished.

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And we think we have it rough.

Outside our front door
2009.
Thank goodness for gas logs no electricity for 3 days.

Roughing it.

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