Winter!

Feb. 11th, 2006 at 1:30 PM

Winter is my favorite season, second only to autumn. And at last, it feels as if we're finally experiencing winter.

I have pictures from our home to illustrate...

And here is Virginia's enthusiastic response to the snow.

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.
~Andrew Wyeth

Current Music:"Lucky," Bif Naked

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groovekittie

Feb. 11th, 2006 08:08 pm (UTC)

lol And not two moments before I clicked on my flist I had been thinking about how much I disliked winter and how anxious I was for summer! Then again, winter begins in October and ends in April here.

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eldritchhobbit

Feb. 12th, 2006 03:34 pm (UTC)

LOL! We really need to switch places then, because I really detest summer, and it seems to stretch from May to September here. My comfort zone is about 40-50 degrees Farenheit, but I'd rather it be colder than that instead of warmer.

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agentxpndble

Feb. 11th, 2006 09:46 pm (UTC)

Ooo... Pretty! I *love* your icon! It just started snowing here (for the first time in weeks.) It would be nice to have one more proper winter experience here before it's all over... Because soon it will be Spring. Ugh. The only season I really hate.

Schmoopy taking a winter nap! Clever schmoopy!

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eldritchhobbit

Feb. 12th, 2006 03:35 pm (UTC)

Thanks! :) The icon is by the lovely

euclase. It seemed very appropriate. I love yours. Piglet rules!

I don't like Spring, either. Or Summer. :)

I think Virginia has the right idea with the nap plan!

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randomalia

Feb. 11th, 2006 10:38 pm (UTC)

You have such a gorgeous home! And how amazing to have woods like that. Virginia looks like she has the right idea - stay inside and doze. :)

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eldritchhobbit

Feb. 12th, 2006 03:37 pm (UTC)

Thank you so much for your kind words! My husband designed our house, so we really enjoy it, and most of our 11 acres are woods, which I really enjoy. Virginia, as you can tell, is not much the explorer, however. :)

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aelfgifu

Feb. 12th, 2006 12:14 am (UTC)

squeeee! Now that is lovely! You live in a giant lincoln-log house!

Was very excited to read your email on the fic post, BTW! go you! I'm not alone in the compulsion to follow different kinds of creative ambitions. Go you!

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eldritchhobbit

Feb. 12th, 2006 03:40 pm (UTC)

LOL! It does look like a Lincoln-log house, doesn't it? Thanks for your kind words.

Go us! :)

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fungus_files

Feb. 12th, 2006 12:16 am (UTC)

*is snow jealous*

we're just moving into autumn (which basically means temps below 30 degrees C! lol). at least the leaves change colour this far south in Oz...

* poochie ♥ *

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eldritchhobbit

Feb. 12th, 2006 03:40 pm (UTC)

Ah, autumn... I can't wait! Enjoy the changing leaves for me! :)

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hapendfro

Feb. 12th, 2006 01:43 am (UTC)

OK Im so jealous I know we both live in Middle Tenn and we got nothing, nada, zip in terms of snow. I think it may have snowed for about 15 min betweed 630am and 700am this morning. So how did you manage it. Any way the pictures are great it. I do wish we had had more. Dont you.

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eldritchhobbit

Feb. 12th, 2006 03:42 pm (UTC)

Oh no! I'm so sorry you didn't get any snow. I agree with you - I wish we got more in this area. Ours had melted away by about 2pm yesterday afternoon, but we have another half inch or so, just a dusting, this morning.

I really wanted some winter before we got spring!

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sneezythesquid

Feb. 12th, 2006 02:38 am (UTC)

Now that I've seen your house, I'm even more jelous of you.

That's it, I'm moving in! starts packing

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eldritchhobbit

Feb. 12th, 2006 03:43 pm (UTC)

Awwww! :) Thanks! My husband designed the place. We both love log homes with some woods around them.

C'mon on over! You're welcome anytime. :)

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euclase

Feb. 12th, 2006 03:02 am (UTC)

I love that quote. Guh.

Is that... an icon of mine? Where did you get that? I thought mine was gone forever!

Pictures are AWESOME. Snowy pine needles with your pretty house are gorgeous (it seems everyone is getting snow!), and are those the woods where the deer hang out? Absolutely magical.

*giggle* Virgina sooooo cutalicious.

♥

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eldritchhobbit

Feb. 12th, 2006 03:46 pm (UTC)

Re: I love that quote. Guh.

It certainly is an icon of yours. I adopted it the first time you had it up for grabs, along with the "'Tis the Season to Cuddle Hobbit" icons. That was right before Christmas '04, I think. Does that sound right? Is it okay that I'm still using it (with credit)?

Thanks for the kind words about the pictures. Those are indeed the woods where the deer hang out. You can see more at the far left of the house picture. In the woods shot, you may be able to make out a patch of reflection in the middle of the trees. That's the pond where they like to drink. Isn't it amazing how ice crystals can make everything seem magical?

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nakeisha

Feb. 12th, 2006 08:53 am (UTC)

Ooh, very nice indeed.

I love Winter too. It's my favourite season; my least favourite is summer, which I don't like at all.

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eldritchhobbit

Feb. 12th, 2006 03:47 pm (UTC)

Thanks! :) I'm with you - I'm no fan of summer at all. I keep hoping we can skip straight from early spring to autumn again! Maybe I need to live farther north. (Say, the Pole. LOL!)

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st_crispins

Feb. 12th, 2006 07:24 pm (UTC)

The snow gave me (finally) some time to finish our paper. It's in your email.

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eldritchhobbit

Feb. 14th, 2006 10:56 pm (UTC)

Do you feel the warm and rosy glow of achievement now that the paper's done? Then again, it sounds like it might be too cold there for any warm and rosy glow... :) At any rate, thanks again for making this happen.

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wildviolet4

Feb. 12th, 2006 07:36 pm (UTC)

The snow always reminds me of a sugar frosting; there is something so quiet and peaceful about it. Your home is lovely ... and I assume Virginia is tired from the romping in the snow? LOL

In her honor, I offer this:

Canis Major

The great Overdog
That heavenly beast
With a star in one eye,
Gives a leap in the east.

He dances upright
All the way to the west
And never once drops
On his forefeet to rest.

I;m a poor underdog,
Bit tonight I will bark
With the great Overdog
That romps through the dark.

--Robert Frost

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wildviolet4

Feb. 12th, 2006 07:37 pm (UTC)

eeek!! A typo!!! 'but' not 'bit'

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estellye

Feb. 12th, 2006 11:13 pm (UTC)

Beautiful and highly appropriate quote!

You have a lovely home EH, and Virginia is even a good model when she is zonked! It shouldn't be possible to be that adorable, lol!

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eldritchhobbit

Feb. 14th, 2006 11:00 pm (UTC)

Thank you so much for your very kind words!

Virginia does suffer from an overactive cute gene. She can be sick, sleepy, disgruntled, or dirty, and still she is too cute for words. But we love her anyway. LOL!

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