Sunday, December 26, 2010

White Christmas

Although I was not dreaming of one we had a white Christmas! I just looked up the weather records for Nashville, TN and since 1884 snow has fallen 23 times on Christmas Day, with 9 of those times having measurable snowfall which means at least a tenth of an inch. Needless to say everyone was quite excited about having a white Christmas around here!

We were thinking we might have a southern version of Snowmageddon as once again the weather forecasters were going nuts with their predictions. The airport pre-emptively cancelled hundreds of flights. The grand total of our accumulation was . . .

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less than an inch! And in some areas not even that much, maybe a quarter to half an inch. It did snow off and on all day on Christmas Day and some this morning, but it was never more than heavy flurries so not much chance for accumulation.

I am quite excited about the fact that we are supposed to be back around 60 degrees (about 16C) during the day by Thursday. I am hoping that somehow Mother Nature temporarily lost her calendar and we had January in December.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Lucky grazing in the snow flurries

O'Reilly and Spike

Slinky

Noble and Lightening

Homer, Elfin and Leo were munching on hay while the snow flurries came down

Chance and Hemi

Ivan and Thomas
Grand and Trigger

Teddy
Snappy

Lightening

Chili and Clay

Darby and Jason

Darby, Ogie, Jason and Justin (as you can see the snow didn't even stick around the gates)

Fuzzy

Murphy

Boo, Alex and B-Rad

Dutch

Johnny and Stormy

Maisie, Lily, MyLight and Harmony
Annie, one of the pet cows

3 comments:

Funder said...

Haha, my dad said if you squinted and wanted to believe, you could see snow at their house. Glad you didn't get buried either!

Horses do look extra nice in the snow. Makes up for some of the cold IMO!

EvenSong said...

I'm glad to see wearing the bright orange sweatshirt...That way, you won't lose him in the snow banks!
[I wish I could say we'd be up to the 60's this week, or even the next two months! Oh well, I can dream.]

IsobelleGoLightly said...

Hee hee...we don't even think about snow measuring anything until it gets to at least six inches around here! Hee hee. I'm glad you got your sprinkle of snow for the holiday!