{"id":13453,"date":"2025-12-14T18:49:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T18:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=13453"},"modified":"2025-12-14T18:53:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T18:53:29","slug":"snowy-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=13453","title":{"rendered":"Snowy Days"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nWe finally had a nice snow. It snowed all day yesterday, Saturday, and today it looks like a Winter wonderland. I love a good snow. \u00a0In 1978 we had a blizzard that lasted a couple of days and stopped everything. \u00a0David was in the National Guard then and went out helping people get supplies and checking that they were okay. \u00a0I was at home with two little boys and a baby and we were snug as bugs. I have always kept supplies of food so we had plenty, but David \u00a0was worried about us and had some guardsmen bring us milk, which I really didn\u2019t need, but it was nice he was thinking of us.
\nAnyway, it is sunny today and the snow sparkles \u00a0like it has diamonds in it and right now there are very little footprints in it so it looks perfect. \u00a0I probably won\u2019t be getting out in it as I have no boots to wear. \u00a0I usually am barefoot or wearing stockings or crocs even in the Winter and David keeps telling me I need to get some house slippers and I agree and then I never do and complain because my feet are cold!
\nWe had a very nice Thanksgiving. \u00a0There were thirteen of us at the table. \u00a0David and I made a pretty good dinner between us with chicken and noodles, ham, masked potatoes, home grown corn, scalloped oysters, dressing, gravy, cranberry sauce \u00a0and rolls. \u00a0For dessert I made a birthday cake for one of our grandsons. \u00a0He turned 18 and I can\u2019t believe it.<\/p>\n

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He is a star soccer player. \u00a0He has been on the \u00a0varsity team since he was a freshman. We have seen a few of his games. Not sure where he is going to college yet.
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\nWe sang Happy Birthday and ate cake and ice cream and I sent a big piece of the cake home with him.
\nSee that game on the \u00a0table? \u00a0Dizzios. \u00a0You have to match colors on the tiles and it is a really \u00a0fun game. \u00a0 This boy usually won every single game when we would play it.
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\nThis is his parents and younger brother who is one year behind him in school and is on the golf team . \u00a0His birthday is right after Christmas and I always make him a cake for it.
\nWe finally got the house decorated for Christmas. We don\u2019t put up a big tree anymore,just several small ones. \u00a0We just don\u2019t have room any longer for a big tree. Probably because I keep buying furniture. \u00a0This year I bought an old cupboard to put my Santa Claus collection in.
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\nA lady showed this cabinet on Facebook and I told her I would like to buy it so we went down to her store and got it and it is perfect to display my Santa\u2019s.<\/p>\n

There is a designer of fabric that I love, I believe her last name is Wrecker or something like that. \u00a0She came out originally with a fabric collection called \u201c She Who Sews\u201d which I loved and then a Halloween collection and a calendar and this cute snowman collection and I just wanted them all. \u00a0I used some of her fabric to make these little hangings across the mantle. \u00a0Her calendar is really nice if you want one, I think Amazon sells them. \u00a0I keep thinking I don\u2019t need more fabric and then she comes up with something different. \u00a0I guess you could call buying fabric is my vice. Not really a bad one when I can make something with it and then give it away. \u00a0David and I went through all the pillows I have made through the years and we ended up with three large trash bags full to take to our local charity shop \u00a0and a closet full of the rest that I change out over the seasons.<\/p>\n

Here is our mantle with my collection of snowmen. \u00a0Funny how I always seem to end up, with a collection of anything. \u00a0Seems collections just mysteriously grow!
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\nSpeaking of Santa. \u00a0I have my very own living in our house! \u00a0 I painted a picture of him as Santa.
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\nIt sits atop our fireplace mantle<\/p>\n

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Since our country is going to be celebrating its 250th birthday next year, I have been sewing some patriotic things. Some I can show. Some I cannot because they are gifts.
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\nI have been making pillows.<\/p>\n

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\nQuilts.<\/p>\n

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And potholders.
\nI have so enjoyed sewing all these, but still have ideas for some other things \u00a0and then I was thinking of sewing \u00a0little flags and appliqu\u00e9ing them to a pair of my pants in a patchwork.
\nI joined a fabric collecting group where you get six fat quarters of William Morris designed fabric every month for eleven months. In that time I will have 66 fat quarters, enough to make a quilt. \u00a0William Morris was a textile designer in the \u00a0arts and crafts period. \u00a0He also designed wallpaper and this fabric is based upon that, I believe. His designs are so lovely, I cannot wait to see what a quilt will look like made from them.<\/p>\n

My greenhouse is staying nice and toasty warm with our little gas stove we put in it. \u00a0I have to show you my poinsettia. It is several years old and is becoming a little tree. \u00a0In the Virgin Islands, where we have visited a few times, the poinsettias grow as trees and have dozens of blooms on them. Don\u2019t think mine will ever get that big, but here it is,<\/p>\n

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Next Spring I am going to have to put it in a bigger pot.<\/p>\n

Hope the holidays are going well for you. \u00a0I have everything almost completed and plan to keep the real meaning of Christmas in my \u00a0heart. \u00a0Read the book of Luke in the Bible. \u00a0It will give you a good picture of what Jesus is all about. \u00a0I hope you know Him. \u00a0God bless and if I don\u2019t get here before, a very Merry and blessed Christmas to you. \u00a0Bye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  We finally had a nice snow. It snowed all day yesterday, Saturday, and today it looks like a Winter wonderland. I love a good snow. \u00a0In 1978 we had a blizzard that lasted a couple of days and stopped everything. \u00a0David was in the National Guard then and went out helping people get supplies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-memories","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13453"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13535,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13453\/revisions\/13535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}