evolution of a snowday

snow in atlanta is a rare event

however sunday night huge fluffy snowflakes started falling

& within a couple hours we had several inches!

 we woke up monday morning

& it looked like we were in chicago!

( if only, kasey!)

 i stood outside

under the covering on our back porch

while the freezing rain continued-incidentally for hours

to try to capture these little friends.

the brown eyes

( each pairing of our girls has a name...

the blue eyes, the brown eyes,

the book ends, the middle two, 

the little two, the big two)

as i was saying

the brown eyes spent the night out

so the blue eyes & i

instead of playing outside

spent a good deal of time

playing inside in the kitchen.

 started out the morning with shrimp & grits.

i feel certain i was one of the few

stocking up on seafood

during our pre-snow storm shopping bonanza

but i'm so glad i did!

i could eat shrimp every day!

we then began the daunting task of making homemade marshmallows

( darby gave me the idea & alton brown, the recipe).

any recipe that calls for advanced tools,

& yes friends, i consider a candy thermometer

an advanced tool.

well we had to improvise

because all i had was a meat thermometer

& why i have three of those

& no candy thermometers 

is a mystery.

anyway...we had to guesstimate 

when our mixture hit 240 degrees because said thermometer 

only reaches 220.

i've got your kitchen goddess right here.

but they turned out perfectly yummy

messy & sticky

but perfectly yummy!

& don't be intimidated by our copperkitchenaidwannabe

hand mixer.

 dantheman

spent some time searching the web 

& secured our vacation home for the summer.

he always magically appears

when it's time to do dishes.

he's awesome.

brinkley was a little unsure of himself

& the several inches of snow.

 

while the marshmallows were setting

we then whipped up some of alton browns hot chocolate.

delish!

last night while edie's beef enchiladas

were baking

i captured some of our home.

i can't imagine seeing it covered in this much snow again.

just beautiful!

(ps, you can see dan in the top window

cruising through his 550 pager on Bonhoeffer)

& in the bottom corner window

you can see brinkley 

certainly he's thankful that he's an indoor doggy on a cold day like today!

 

ps....congratulations

to all my Auburn friends!!