A Wild Start to 2022

 Just a little catch up...

We started the new year off with a bang.  January 1st tied the record high for the date at 79 degrees F, but before the day was over we were hunkered under the concrete porch with a radar-triggered tornado warning.

Not the ideal start to the new year, but, considering all things, the storm damage in the area was pretty minor; the rotation stayed in the clouds when it was in our area.  We just got a lot of rain.

But the next night, a low pressure system developed behind the cold front and we got snow.

Now, I grew up in Indiana, where snow is pretty and then it's a jolly nuisance.  But in Alabama...snow is magical.  It's been ten years since we had snow on the ground two nights in a row.  So I took all kinds of pictures.

It's gone now, by the way.  Doesn't hang around long enough to wear out its welcome, lol.

I stayed up till a ridiculous hour to get the night photos; I didn't think it would last long enough to get good pics in the daylight...

Being the 9th day of Christmas, we still had the lights in the bushes.  So cool.

The night setting on my phone is amazing; it almost looks like daylight.

This would have been better if I had walked all the way around the house, but I didn't have on appropriate footwear to walk in the snow...the driveway was still just wet.

But it stayed cold and I took a 3+ mile walk down to the greenway and back the next morning.  The pics look black and white...but I promise you, they are color.  It was just that stark in real life.

I am not going to do a review of my sewing in 2021; it was pretty pitiful in many ways.  I only had 22 posts all year.  But I have something brewing that might turn out to be a series...and I need to finish posting the goodies in the Hoover Trunk.  My upstairs sewing room is progressing; the next thing is to get the old Simplicity pattern cabinet moved up there.  

But here's to a more inspired year in 2022 for all of us!  Happy New Year!