Winter Wonderland

OK, I'm running out of clever titles for all these snow posts, but it sounds like I better come up with more since we don't sound like we are coming out of a deep freeze any time soon. Today we were only supposed to get at most 2 inches of snow. At least that's what the weatherman said this morning before we lost satellite reception and power. I measured the snow on the BBQ when I got up around 6 and it was 3.5 inches (above the ice layer). Tonight it reads 9 inches! Which means we got over 6 inches of snow today! We now have a total of 17 inches on the back deck. It's incredible!



I did not make it into work today. We had no chains for the truck, which are a requirement around here. Plus with the snow we were getting it just didn't seem like a good idea to me. So we played in the snow, went and got boots for Mom, oh yeah, and got chains for the truck. The snow was so powdery we can't build a snowman in it, but it's still fun to trek around in and the kids enjoyed playing:




Yes, they tried to ride their bikes in over 15 inches of snow! Didn't work out so well for them. Fun to watch though!

Ginger was NOT happy about being in the snow. Bryan thought she might want to check it out, but she definitely did not!

They are now saying we might get even MORE snow for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. At least we get a break for the next day or so before the next storm comes in. Once again it depends on how it comes in, but I guess they are saying chances are it will bring more snow for us for Christmas. As nice as that would be, I'm just about done with this stuff. We have lost power 3 times today and our satellite is half buried on the roof so we won't be getting any TV reception until we thaw. At least the video store was opened!