Snow!

[Woodrow]

Would the meat be used too, Woodrow?
I seems wasteful to breed animals simply to use their antlers ...

The beauty of reindeer. they shed their antlers yearly and grow a new and larger set each year. You can get antlers from one for quite a few years. For the size of the little critters the antlers are gigantic.

Four feet long for one is common.

 

[sister herb]

Oh sorry I was thinking you meant they hoofs by word antlers. Hoofs are what end at feet, antlers at head.

:embarrass

You can make food by hoofs.

 

[Grace Seeker]

Yes, I know a number of animals that people use their hooves (or whatever type of feet they have) to make a variety of meals. If you were from a subsistence culture, you didn't want to waste anything.

 

[Woodrow]

Oh sorry I was thinking you meant they hoofs by word antlers. Hoofs are what end at feet, antlers at head.

:embarrass

You can make food by hoofs.

That is true. And it is quite good.

The Reindeer are to the Lapps what the Tatanka (Bison, American Buffalo) are to the Native Americans. Not a single bit of either is wasted. Every bit is used even the Hooves. What can not be eaten is used to make clothing what can not be used for food or clothing is used to make tools or as building material.

 

[sister herb]

That is true. And it is quite good.

The Reindeer are to the Lapps what the Tatanka (Bison, American Buffalo) are to the Native Americans. Not a single bit of either is wasted. Every bit is used even the Hooves. What can not be eaten is used to make clothing what can not be used for food or clothing is used to make tools or as building material.

Unfortunately many nations and people have forgot how to make those things and foods from original material. It is more easy to order pizza.

Ok, maybe again back to snow?

 

[Grace Seeker]

^^sorry, no. I must go off topic one more time to add a comment with regard to the Chicago stockyards -- they were known to use every part of the cow but the moo.


Now for snow, several inches predicted to start tomorrow night across the eastern half of the US, just as we head out on a 10-hour drive from IL to my son's in NC.

 

[Woodrow]

^^sorry, no. I must go off topic one more time to add a comment with regard to the Chicago stockyards -- they were known to use every part of the cow but the moo.


Now for snow, several inches predicted to start tomorrow night across the eastern half of the US, just as we head out on a 10-hour drive from IL to my son's in NC.

OUCH​

Looks like it is leaving us and headed your way.

Don't forget to pack your skis and remember to take plenty of Snow pictures as you cross the Smokeys

 

[Grace Seeker]

Skiis are already packed. Don't know about taking snow pictures while driving. I hope to stay on the road, those are mighty big ditches they have in the Smokeys.

 

[glo]

Safe journey, Grace Seeker, and God bless.
Will you be gone long?

 

[serena77]

i'm getting to see my first white christmas ever.. i'm 33... its snowed a few times the week of christmas,... but like i said before.. family isn't christian.. i'm leaving the church... but ... there's still gonna be a huge feast and i LOVE snow.
Serena

 

[Grace Seeker]

We are down here in North Carolina until Wednesday, then we will head back home. It snow all the way here. We saw many drivers in the ditch as we crossed over the mountains in NC. I fear they mistakenly think that if there is some small problem ahead on the road the best thing to do is hit their brakes. I saw many do this when all they needed to do was simply take their foot off the gas. The result for some were rather traumatic, but most just slid off into the median. However, one was upside down on its roof. :crickey:

My son doesn't live in the mountains, but in Charlotte, bordering South Carolina. So we are pretty far south and low in elevation, but there was snow here as well -- about 3 inches. We went out to a party with some of my son's friends on Saturday and a few people had lived here for like 25 years and this was the first Christmas snow they had ever seen.

On Sunday it was still snowing. So, I took the grandkids skiing. The drive there was about 2 hours back up into the mountains, but really wasn't bad at all. When we got there they wanted to go tubing instead. I think they were a little afraid of both the mountain and the cold. We had done the tubing the first time we were here a few years ago. And it too is fun. But with all the fresh powder it was killing me to be on a slow tubing run rather than a nice ski hill.

I went to take a look at the ski hill and my grandson walked up there with me. After he saw the beginner's area he wasn't quite so scared. So,we ended up doing that too. Some of their friends had also come so I had 4 beginners that I got to play ski instructor for. The good thing is that I actually am a ski instructor. So I was able to get them going pretty good. One of their friends seemed to come by it very naturally. But, I never made it up the mountain to do any of the runs I was really interested in. Spent my whole time there on the bunny slope. Oh well. Que sera, sera. Maybe next time.

Driving home was another story. The traffic just crawled along in long lines snaking up and down the mountainside doing about 15-20 mph. I kept thinking, what is going to happen when one of these drivers hit their brakes at the wrong time?:bump1::bump1: Fortunately we were moving so slowly nothing bad happened. Though there was the point that one person came to a full stop right in the middle of the road. That was an interesting moment.

Today down here in the lowlands it is warm enough to already be melting the snow. And the sun is out drying up the roads, so time to get all the 1/2 inch of salt that is caked to my car washed off after taking the kids to a matineeopcorn:. Tomorrow we are headed for the zoo. And then Wednesday head the 600+ miles back home -- with perhaps a slight delay for a side trip back up to that ski hill sans grandkids.:haha:

 

[Woodrow]

I finally got outside to get some snow pictures. Today was a great day temps actually got near 40. but this is just a temporary pause, so I enjoyed playing with the camera.

This I found to be intersting. The plant hange on the side of the carport was covered in snow as the snow began melting a little and rapidly refreezing it took on strange shapes that almost seem to defy gravity.

One of the unpleasent aspects of snow. the horses still need to be feed.Tried to drive up to the barn, but it was too deep to make it through even in the 3/4 ton pick up with 4 WD. These were my attempts before I gave up and hand carried their food to them.

This I though was cute. Last nights wind was so strong most of the snow blew off the trees except for where it was frozen into Y's in the Branches. Looks almost like white flowers on the trees.

Zeeland does have actual snow removal equipment and the stuff works.

Only problem is only one man in town knows how to drive any of it and he doesn't work for the town.

 

[جوري]

today in NYC

 

[gohar98]

Well I don`t live in UK but I love the beautiful pictures.

 

[glo]

Woodrow, don't slam the door too hard with those snowy shapes hanging over the edge of the roof!
Otherwise, this might happen:

 

[Woodrow]

Today can best be described with 2 short videos I took today. The first one was at near 12 noon when I wnt downtown to get a few groceries, as the one store in town will most likely close until after the storm



The second one was taken from my back yard at 3:30 PM



Since I uploaded the videos on photobucket and not Youtube you will have to click on the pictures to see them.

 

[Ğħαrєєвαħ]

^WOW masha`Allaah we got to hear uncle Woodrow! but that was soo cool and cool video, theres no snow here :-\, but jazakallaahu khaayr for sharing akhee!

 

[Woodrow]

When you look out the window at your thermometer and see this:

You sort of loose any desire to go outside to feed the horses.

 

[Woodrow]

The snow finally stopped, here are our Wind Chimes on the front porch. For some odd reason they stopped chiming

Some pictures around the yard:

 

[~Raindrop~]

Oh wow mashaAllah...everything looks so pure and beautiful =)