It SNOWED!!!!! And I am IN LOVE!!!!

The view from our bedroom window!

Yup, definitely snow on the mountain tops.

Whew....good-bye 90 degree heat!

Yesterday the temperature dropped twenty degrees in about an hour. Big lightening and thunder activity, and rain all about, and the television kept sending out weather alerts.

When they said that there was to be .6 inches of rain in a hour, and to prepare for flooding, I kinda laughed. Back in Houston we could get .6 inches of rain just from the sweat falling from tall folks walking by on the street.

It was hard to know what to watch: our weather alert or the alerts for Hurricane Gustav, or Houston weather. In the end, it looks like all is well enough on all fronts.

But we got SNOW!!!

I got up early while the rain was still pounding and the morning sky was black with storm clouds from horizon to horizon. A perfect day to get house work done.

A task I have ignored for two weeks; sharing a room with two cats, their litter box and with very little room for our duffel bags, well, cleaning up seemed impossible.

But since the cats are now in a kennel it was time to straighten up.

(Long story on the cats...Tigs was stalking Meowsie, Meowsie lost his nerve and had an accident on Jeff's bed twice, so we decided our two would have to be housed elsewhere until we can move into the view house.)

While I was running laundry and scrubbing up the bathroom, the rain stopped, the sky cleared, and B. called out that there was indeed snow up on the mountain tops.

Naturally I grabbed my camera!

Nice pictures....but I wanted a better shot.

A walk to the end of the street showed me a prune tree heavy with unripe fruit, a green apple tree also heavy with unripe fruit, thistles in bloom and this blue flower.

OK...that was worth the walk for the flower even if there wasn't a better mountain view.

And I saw this little house. I've been thinking we'll paint our new house's shutters black, like this one. Except this one also has a very deep blue grey on the trim. Hmmm....interesting idea.

I took off walking down the street and around the corner.

The mountains hid behind hospitals, high rises and trees.

This was a good peek though.

That's quite a bit of snow actually. Darn, I wish we could drive up there and see it....but B. is more interested in getting in a round of golf. Jeff says it will be too soggy to enjoy the game; I said B. would say it is only too soggy to play golf if you have to shove Shamu the Killer Whale out the the tee box in order to play.

I *think* that is Mt. Olympus.

A pretty Japanese maple had turned color nicely. I am told the mountains will be changing color soon too.

What I want to know is what is with all the unripe fruit on the trees around here.

I saw trees full of rock hard pears, peaches, crab apples and a green thing that looked like an avocado but I know it isn't an avocado. If it was, I would be SO excited...love those things!

I thought the good sized blue cypress berries looked like frosted bells. So I took a picture...

It has been such a good day.

The house is clean, the weather is cool, the Gulf Coast is going to be OK, and I think Sarah Palin totally rocks.

Bernie read me a review that said she had the "bad girl librarian vibe."

The Boston Herald said: "She’s good-looking in that librarian-with-glasses style, hair piled up on her head."

(Why yes as a matter of fact I do know all about that naughty librarian look myself. Any moment now I will pull off my glasses, toss my hair loose and pull a man over the desk and have my way with him....oh sure...happens all the time...)

I liked this joke:

It’s the vice presidential debate.

The moment Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin mentions Hillary, Joe Biden does a Lloyd Bentsen.
“I know Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton is a friend of mine, and Governor, you’re no Hillary Clinton.”
But here’s Palin’s drop-dead reply: “Senator, I know your running mate, Barack Obama. And he’s no Hillary Clinton either.”
Bada boom, bada bing.

This link to Youtube clip about Palin as a Naughty Librarian by

Craig Ferguson is a hoot. I mean, really, a mother of five, and she still has got it rockin'.

Silliness aside; I seriously LOVE this woman!

The more I read, the more I like.

This election just got really, really interesting.

And to all my liberal feminist friends out there who want to vote for a woman...don't miss out...this is your big chance to put your vote where your mouth is.

Let's not suddenly start talking about "ideals"...it used to be all that mattered was the gender.

If all that matters is getting a woman elected, I think you should go ahead and make that woman in office be Sarah Palin!