Look at that! The tree's up! And what's that white stuff outside? Yup! SNOW!
It's all gone by the time I'm writing this but we had about 7 inches! Can you believe it? In southern Louisiana!

It fell the whole time while I was decorating the tree, I had some Christmas music going and we had eggnog for happy hour. 
What a magical day! Let's just call this Christmas already, shall we?

  

James put the star in top and we gave Merl his very own tree outside.

And all the while it was snowing .. and snowing ... and ... you get the picture! Well, here ARE some pictures:

We had to lower the awning a little to get the snow to slide off, but other than that we were fine ..

The dish reception got a little scratchy though:

I took a little walk to snap some pictures of the trees all covered in snow. So pretty:

The B&B will probably not look like this for a long time to come ..

'Big J' looked very 'mountain-man'-ish!

Time to 'take a snow-day', work on a puzzle, have some eggnog, spiked of-course ..

And fortunately I'd had the foresight to plan a nice 'stick-to-the-ribs' dinner, good old-fashioned dutch 'hutspot' (mashed carrots/onion and potato) with a nice meatball ..

 

 (and look at that gravy mote!)

The next day it had stopped snowing and the sun was out. We went for an early walk to beat the snow all melting away ...

 

(Sorry, more snow-pictures, but it really was the 'happening' of the year for us)

In some areas the ground was covered with 'needle ice'.
These funny looking little pillars form when the air is below freezing and the soil is above freezing.

Due to a capillary action that occurs, the water is drawn out to form these frozen needles, columns, spires, or pillars.

More ice 'art':

And snow art ..

I didn't mention it yet, but this is how frosty it got overnight ... 24F!

Brrrrr!

OK, I think that will be it for today. Like I said in the beginning, it has all melted by now but I sure hope we'll get some more! 

With Christmas just around the corner I've started baking cookies, one of my favorite things to do (sometimes I wonder if I should have pursued a carrier as a pastry chef?)
I've started with a batch of Gingerbread Men, it makes the RV smell like .. like .. well, like Christmas!

It's a jolly bunch!