Here we go again! MORE snow! Who would you like to be snowbound with?

I'm not sure Illya ever ranked as a "hunk" but he sure was adorable!

MacGyver is yummy! I had a crush on Illya Kuryakin, too! Man! He was such an adorable hunk!!!

Hey, I was in love with Illya Kuryakin as well. He's wearing well, actually - still quite dishy!

I think u & shirley need to let your imagination run away from you. Come on y'all admit to being snowbound w/someione really exciting, lol. Let the truth be heard, hear, hear.

I'd like to haved my sons here. We've always been able to enjoy being together. My husband would bed a damp dishrag but that's his problem. I'd still have fun! Enough is enough whenever you get more snow than you're used to. We've had about five feet already and they've updated our forecast to 18 to 24 inches predicted now so we could potentially have over seven feet before this season is over. I'm waiting to see penguins waddling around and sea lions around our lake! I wouldn't be surprised in the least!

Ah, geez. I didn't mean to say my husband would BED a damp dishrag. LOL He'd BE a damp dishrag. I have a bandage on the end of my finger from when I smashed it in the car door. I have to wear this thing for 6 weeks because I have tendon damage and the tip of my finger was/is crooked. It makes me hit the 'd' almost every time I type an 'e'. I back up and fix what I see but that one slipped past me. Oops.

Again, your husband sounds a lot like my ex! You must've lost your electricity when Ike went through, I lost mine for 4 days, too. Mom was here and we had a great time--when it got dark we'd light the candles and tell stories and I learned a lot about what life was like during the depression. I'm glad it happened, that was a special time for me with my mom and getting to know my neighbors. Have a great day! Go out after hubby comes home and enjoy yourself for a few hours!

Ah, geez. Weatherbug just alerted me to a new warning. 16 to 24 inches are now expected instead of 12 to 20. This is going to be... uhh... interesting. I'm DEFINITELY going out tonight! LOL

They're saying 20 to 28 inches now. It has been snowing for about an hour now and there's about 1 1/2 inches on the ground. The heaviest is supposed to be tonight through early Saturday morning. I can't wait to see what I wake up to!

Hahahaha Annie! We said almost the same thing when I lived in Maryland. If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes. It'll change. We haven't had a thaw. It has been completely frozen since early December. We've had some above-freezing temperatures but not by much and they didn't last long. I think, at this point, that I would PREFER wet and sloppy, even if it froze again overnight. (Of course, I don't have to drive to work every day so that makes that statement easier to say.) I've already bought all my veggie seeds and ordered the new fruit trees for this year's garden and haved planned where everything is going. I bought a replacement tiller so I'd have it the very first day I can work the dirt. But now I'm worried that I won't be able to have a garden this year because I don't think this cold or snow will EVER stop! I might have to use a snow blower and ice pick to get anything planted this Spring. I'm going to make sure my hubby gets off his lazy butt and uses the snow blower so I'm not snowbound with him again! I doubt I'll have much of a problem. He likes his new toy.

Yes, the "Duckman" is still quite "ducky" ain't he!

That sounds ideal! I especially like the snuggling part. Even though he's showing his age now, I'd choose Robert Redford. I've been gaa gaa over him since, oh geez, it must be since the 70's! Yeah, I could see me snuggling up to him. We could talk about environmental stuff and keep each other snuggy warm.

I hope we don't get that much, either. I'm so sick of snow! It figures that we get another big snowstorm now because my husband has had my SUV all week while he's awaiting a new transmission for his truck. The new transmission just got into the shop yesterday afternoon so he probably won't have his truck back until tomorrow which means I'll be getting my SUV back just in time to watch it get totally covered in snow... again. Geez. Well, that's life, huh? LOL Hasn't this been an incredible winter?

We haven't had it as bad as some. I am not looking forward to the snow either. We are supposed to take my son to the doctor 1 1/2 hours away in the morning. I am watching the weather and no one can agree on when it will start getting nasty. It is supposed to start with freezing rain and I don't want stuck in it.

I truly hope the bad weather holds off long enough for you to take your son to the doctor's and you both get back safely before it starts. They are saying it should start here in the afternoon. I'm in Virginia, in the mid-Atlantic. We seem to have been getting the worst of it this year.

I'm in Virginia, in the mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. Normally, we don't get the worst of the winter weather but this year we've had it pretty bad. It sounds like you have a wonderful family. I wouldn't mind being snowbound with my sons at all. They are much like me in that we can always find something interesting to do and share. My husband, unfortunately, turns into a vegetable and will just stare at the TV for the most part. Oh, well. Guess I'll be snowbound with my myLot family. That can be a LOT of fun!

Yup, it is ! :-)

Anyone you want! I wouldn't mind being snowbound with Robert Redford. I know he's an old guy now but he's still got it! I'm not sure if our wishes would be reciprocated but it sure is nice to dream, isn't it?

Oh, yes! Alice is definitely in this group! Let's just promise that we all won't try to make snow angels at the same time! I can picture us all going down, then just lying there in the snow, wondering how in the world we're going to get back up!

Dang! If you could say snow is "pouring", that's what it's doing right now. This really is awesome!

Marti, You have no idea how much I'd love to come up to Virginia and see you and your home. You have been such a good friend. I wish we could at least meet someday.I'm going to send you an IM. Leenie

Aww, shucks! Thank you! I'd LOVE it if I could have a huge get-together with my favorite people here and you (and commander) would definitely be included! Oh, we could have such fun in this winter... uh... wonderland. Believe me, you guys can have all the snow you can cart up there. I heard that snow had to be trucked in for the Olympics. That's just plain wrong! You guys should be getting all the snow and we should be getting ready to start our gardens right now. Somebody's got to have a talk with Mother Nature! I like the idea of a Snow Angel category for the Olympics. We could definitely have it here. LOL

Oh, it's not so sad. I know quite a lot of people who would prefer to be snowbound by themselves. Sometimes, having other people around can get on your nerves, especially if you couldn't get away once in a while. I would choose Robert Redford because, in my eyes, not only has he been quite a hunk for many, many decades (even though he is kind of old now) but because he's quite an environmentalist. We'd have quite a lot to talk about.

Good pick, Paula. If elvis were still alive i would have definitely liked to have been snowbound w/him even if it wasn't snowing, lol.

I can understand why you would pick Jon Bon Jovi. Nothing wrong with that! LOL I'd have to choose my family as well. My two dogs get upset when I go outside for one minute. They'd never handle being without me for any big length of time. I also have a cat who follows me everywhere and would be lost if I were stuck somewhere else. (This weird cat even goes fishing with me when I go down to the lake. He's my fishing buddy, although he always forgets to bring his rod and reel. He keeps all the bugs away from me. LOL) They've updated the total amount we're supposed to get. It's now up to 18 to 24 inches. I hope they don't update it again unless it's to tell us we'll be getting less!

Hey, neighbor! Welcome to myLot! I live in northern Virginia, in Winchester. West Virginia practically surrounds us! lol I understand completely what you're saying about being alone. I used to work at home and was raising two sons. I would say the same if I were still working. Teenagers are not human, at least mine weren't! At the age of 14, they morphed into some kind of alien creatures. I didn't recognize them again until they were maybe 18 or 19. I hope you're all prepared for this storm. I'm prepared, at least for creature comforts. In my mind, though, I'll never be prepared. Gardening is my absolutely favorite thing to do and it's hard to even imagine what my garden will look like with all this snow covering everything. We've had WAY too much of it this year! Good luck to you! Stay safe!

Hi LDB! Yes, PLEASE don't go hiking this weekend! I'd have horrible thoughts of the rangers finding you sometime late this Spring once all this stuff melts! They're saying we'll be having near-blizzard conditions at times and that's not very conducive to a pleasant hiking experience. But, I'm sure you knew that. Stay safe!

I'm east of both of you in that other 'Northern Virginia' or NOVA as it is known around the DC metropolitan area. Actually, I am just south of that area. Yep, getting ready to hunker down for the latest onslaught of that white crap. *sighs heavily* VA is definitely getting hit this winter (we've been lucky for too many years, I guess). Just gonna be me and my 2 cats, and that's the way I like it. We don't get on each other's nerves. Guess I won't plan on hiking in Shenandoah NP this weekend (although I have been up there in the snow -- a little chilly, but awesome!)

Do you ever wish you had an ENERGY BANK??? At times, like you are facing right now, cold and snowing outisde...and curled up by the fire reading the newest seed catalogue...you could opt to put all that unused energy in a BANK...there to withdraw when needed in the Spring? I sure do...and WOW could I ever get a lot more accomplished. For me...in winter, the light runs out before the enegy..and in summer, the energy runs out before the light!Oh for an energy bank! LOL! I notice...you didn't comment on my choice of companion's, that's probably cuz you are a nice friend and don't want to hurt my feelings! LOL! HUGZ & Cheers!

Oh, by all means, gloat away, pergy! Hearing how nice it is there puts warm thoughts in my head and that's better than nothing! I'm afraid my daffodils won't be peeking through the soil for awhile yet. Heck, I doubt I'll even SEE the soil until late Spring! You should see my seed catalogues, they're well read already. I've already ordered all my veggie seeds and fruit/nut trees I plan to plant this year but keep looking through the catalogues in case I missed something I can't live without. I'm hoping that my poppies will have the chance they never really got last year. Sadly, I just may need a snow blower and ice pick to plant anything this Spring! This is the worst winter I can ever remember, even going back to when I was a child and snow always seemed deeper than it actually was. No other year has come close. Well, that's not exactly true. One year, 1979, we got five feet of snow dumped on us in a two-week span but we've already had five feet and this storm could put us over seven feet in total. But, I plan to make the most of it. I've bought plenty of shop lamps with cool fluorescent tubes so I can start quite a lot inside. I made sure to also have enough potting soil and peat pots/pellets to start all my seeds. Plus, I plan to have a bit of fun outside, probably on Saturday or maybe Sunday, depending on how bad the snow is falling. They're saying we will be getting blizzard conditions at times and I think I'll want to spend that time inside. But, I'll definitely make a snow angel or two and have my husband take pictures so I can share them here. I'd take a video but then you'd laugh at this old gal trying to get up out of the snow. I have my Vitamin D (plus C) already in hand!

New update: 20 to 28 inches expected.

Hi, Yep, I'm from Towson, Md. I live right in the heart of Towson. Just a little north of me there is Towson University and a little south of me is Goucher College. My son live in Lutherville and my daughter lives about 5-10 minutes from me, also in Towson. I have a little snow footed siamese tabby kitty. She is my loyal and constant companion. When I sent out for groceries earlier this week, I made sure that she was stocked up on her treaties. Did you live in Towson before you moved to Va.?

Cool! Another neighbor! I'm in Virginia right now but moved here three years ago from Maryland. Hey! Maybe you could invent snow chains for scooters? I'm disabled but don't need a scooter. Still, I won't walk on ice or packed-down snow. If I fell, well, I just don't want to think about that. I couldn't walk too far in deep snow, either, so I'm pretty much stuck here until things get cleared. I have two dogs and a cat who would all keep me company if I were snowbound. They'd keep me company plus would be good to snuggle with to keep warm, even though the dogs are tiny Maltese. They're excellent snugglers. LOL I hope you don't get as much as is predicted here. They've updated the predicted amount to 20 to 30 inches now and I have the feeling we'll get over 30 inches. That big storm we had in December dumped 33 inches on us, even though the offical total was 22 inches. They should have come here to measure the snow. Well, I wish you well. Stay warm and safe!

I just noticed that you're in Towson. My mother and stepfather lived in Towson (actually Ruxton) before their deaths. Actually, my mother was born in Towson. Small world, huh?

Just think, one day this will just be a memory. Yeah I know what you mean though. It reminds me of '93 when we had the blizzards. I thought it would never end, the snow was piled so high on either side of our driveway that our neighbors couldn't tell I was out shovelling, they couldn't see me. It was over 5 ft. deep. My daughter is driving tractor trailor in PA somewhere, I'm concerned that she'll be all right. I'm staying home, I have lots of yarn to crochet with, we have a generator in case the power goes out (happens frequently here), there's plenty of food in the pantry so I have no need to go anywhere. Oooh, I just heard on the news - three inches an hour. What a mess!

I'm sure there are quite a few people who would love to get snowbound with George Clooney. LOL I'm in the mountains of northern Virginia, not far! What makes this snow even more odd is that the past two years have been virtually snowless. We got a bit of snow but not much, only a few inches, total. We got 7 or 8 inches last Saturday, then another 4 inches on Tuesday, now this. Those last two snows haven't melted, either. Plus, they've updated what is expected today and tomorrow to 20 to 28 inches. That's on top of the stuff already on the ground. In December, we got 33 inches. I know because I put a tape measure in the snow. The so-called "experts" said we got 22 inches. I don't know where they measured but it sure wasn't here! That has me a bit worried now because, if they said we got 22 inches when we actually got 33 inches, and they're expecting up to 28 inches now, we may just get over 3 feet of snow with this storm. I know, it's a bit of a stretch but definitely possible. I guess we'll know by Saturday night. All I know is that we'll have to shovel a few times today and throughout tomorrow or we won't be able to open the doors! Good luck to you and stay safe!

The predictions are up to 20 to 30 inches now with even more in some areas. Will this ever end???

I might need that flame thrower! We've just been updated again: 20 to 28 inches now expected. I might need to melt the snow to get to the snow blower! LOL I'd start packing my bags right now for a trip up north but I have no transportation! My husband's truck is STILL in the shop, supposedly having the new transmission (that just arrived at the shop yesterday) put in today, but, well, who knows? I have the feeling that everyone who can will be leaving work early today. My husband is on his way home now. It would be AWESOME if he got snowbound at work but no such luck. I'd have a blast piddling around the house by myself, with my furry friends for company. There's already over an inch out there now and it's coming down pretty hard. I think that, by the time he's home, there will be at least half a foot of snow out there. His normal commute takes about one and a half hours. There's still hope that I'll get a call telling me that he's stuck somewhere between here and there and needs to hunker down wherever he is. Aren't I bad?

Bad? No. Mischievous? Most definitely! ;-) cdrxo

We had a light "dusting" here in Toronto yesterday, and that's the most snow we've seen all season thus far. Seems like we've become the new Fort Lauderdale this year! "Everybody head to the Lake Ontario beach!" Yeah, right. Good luck with your snow blower, and be thankful you didn't need that flame thrower...at least not yet. Cheers Marti; cdrxo

Aww! I have two Maltese dogs who cuddle with me every chance they get anyway so I'm sure we'd be cuddling a lot if I couldn't get out.

You're the first person to actually answer my question! That sounds wonderful, being snowbound with your family. I'd like that, too. Well, I mean I'd like to be snowbound with MY family, not yours.