*I* love th white stuff, but others may not

First significant winter storm of the season may bring 5+" of snowfall to the area tomorrow.

The National Weather Service has issued a WINTER STORM WATCH for Montgomery County from Sunday Morning through Sunday night. A strong low pressure system has developed over the lower Miss valley, and is expected to move through the region tomorrow. This is expected to be an all snow event for Montgomery County.

Residents should begin Winter Storm preparations which should consider the potential of significant (5+") snow accumulations within the next 48 hours. Please remain alert for the issuance of additional winter weather warnings.

A winter storm watch is issued when there is the potential for significant snowfall and winter weather within 48 hours.

Happy holidays from Montgomery County!

5" will seem like pretty small beans to a lot of my friends and readers elsewhere, but in DC that's a sizable, if not huge, snowfall, and will probably put a damper on the holidays of the people with jobs int he Department of Public Works, who are all probably getting calls on Xmas Day to come into work to start making preparations.

meanwhile, Xmas!

The cats made out like bandits! I got them a new tilted scratchy board, two rubbery mice infused with catnip and which you can put treat into (made of nontoxic material, as I know Nick will chew the tails off), a new sleeping pad, and two scrunchy ring-toss toys (annoyingly, cat toys always seem to come in two, which makes it difficult if you have three cats). But the present de resistance came from my downstairs friends (whose cats I'm looking after, and who look after the boyz for me when I go on trips), who sent them a turbo trackball! It has been played with continuously since I put it together--one of the best cat presents evah! ( I got great prezzies too! )

holiday cats!

And, as promised, cat pictures!