Blizzard...a long severe snowstorm... Webster Dictionary

This is what Christmas Eve, 2009, looked like to about

one half of the United States.

This went on all day and into the night.

This is "The Morning After".
The sun is shinning and it is really quite pretty.
There is no noise, no car motors, no human
voices, no birds chirping, no squirrels chattering
and no dogs barking. Just quite.

I had moved Jack's bed from the flower bed
to the porch and I am so glad I did.
If I had left his bed in the original place
he would have been snow covered.

He made it through the storm just fine.
During the day when it was blowing snow
so bad, I would take the blankets in every so often
and dry them in the dryer.
He stayed in the bed all day Christmas Eve.

I checked on him during the night and he was
always hunkered down in the blankets, all warm
and toasty.

I caught him waking up the next morning.
He is stretching his neck from being curled up all night.

AJ got up Christmas morning and cleared our sidewalk off.

After AJ got quite a bit of the snow shoveled,
Jackie decides it's now safe to travel out on.

He also tells ME it was a long cold night

and he is ready for a warm breakfast!

With the help of Jack's supervision, AJ did

a great job of clearing the snow from our

sidewalk and drive.

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Please throw out bread to the birds or fill your

feeders with seed. They will

"Thank You"!