Yesterday was a snow day. Not just a day off from school (it would have been anyway since it was Saturday), but a day off from everything. I was SNOWED IN. Snowfall totals ranged from 24 to 30 inches. The largest dump of snow was in the early morning hours, but there was a steady, light snowing that continued until the afternoon. Here are some pictures of the Blizzard of ’10. How would you say that? “The Blizzard of Ten”? “The Blizzard of Oh-Ten”?
My snow-covered porch:
My snow-covered pond:
The sidewalk:
After my morning shoveling, it snowed some more.
My house:
I waded through the snow twice to fill the bird feeder:
Last time I saw a skier; this time a snowmobile!
Harford Road was full of people walking. It looked post-apocalyptic.
Evergreen wasn’t plowed at all. Some nice person stomped a foot path though:
Wow!!!! I kept thinking of your storm all yesterday. That is such a huge amount! How soon will they get around to plowing your street? Did you stomp the footpath?
Too bad you didn’t have one of these. It looks pretty dang cool, and it’s supposed to be back-friendly: sno wovel
Dang…that thing is expensive!
My court has not been done & is always last. I’ll probably have work tomorrow…if I can get out! Enjoy your week off all you others. I’m smiling…I’m smiling for you.
So how do you like your birthday present? I ordered it especially for you
Now get that grading done!
We cannot get out of our driveway – the snow is 2 feet high on the street – plows keep getting stuck at each end of it. It just looks like one big front yard between me and the neighbors across the street. Our sidewalks are great though, so the kids and I walked to Dunkin Donuts this morning for my coffee fix. No donuts though, so the kids got ice cream for breakfast. (It’s also a Baskin Robbins.)
See you all next week!
So while we were walking to Carrabbas for dinner (and to escort my son to work) we passed a super big snow plow and when we returned, our neighbor said it took them 5 passes to clear a lane on our street!
Free at last!
I say “The bilzzard of twenty-ten” Just in case you really wanted to know.
And here’s to having your birthday off of school tomorrow…and at least half the week…
What I REALLY want to know is:
Is it “…sailors delight”
or “…sailor’s delight”
Even though they mean completely different things, either one makes grammatical sense.
I’ll go with “sailor’s delight”, because it is their delight, even though the next line is a directive – “sailors, take warning”.
Great, now every time I say that I’m going to quibble.
Without a comma, the other verse could be a statement instead of a directive:
“sailors take warning”
I think it’s sailors’.
Er, that’s what I meant, too. Stupid apostrophe.
Ha! I didn’t even think of that third possiblilty.
So, you’re saying that red skies at night is the delight of plural sailors. I think that would force the other part of the rhyme to mean that red skies in the morning automatically cause sailors to take warning. If the first part isn’t a directive, the second part wouldn’t be either, would it?
If it’s a bossy sea captain on the sailors’ first day – like boot camp – then they could both be directives. Otherwise, I think it could switch around.
Correct. To be a directive in the 2nd part, it has to be set up in the 1st part.
This is how you can tell we’ve all been snowed in to long. Re-read this entire thread. I mean, really…and I’m a language minor already!
I wanted to ask you about the snow all yesterday, but I knew there was a post coming, so I bid my time (bided?).
I think it’s bud.
HA! Is that like “spring-sprang-sprung” and “think-thank-thunk”? Ah, love the principle parts!
Oh, and I really think you should say the blizzard of aught-ten.