On the news last night they said that we were in for a great big snow storm and they weren’t lying. Karen’s school district is a rural one and they often miss school if the roads are bad. They don’t want to chance anyone getting hurt by a school bus sliding off the road. They had a snow day on Monday and an even worse one today. By 2:00pm today we had an accumulation of a foot of snow in the last 24 hours. That gets us pretty close to an all time high for snowfall in any one year and it’s only the beginning of February. Karen usually goes in to work even if the kids don’t, but not today. I don’t think we could even get out our driveway. The treacherous conditions were, however, just beautiful. We have a winter wonderland. Even the smallest branches can have an accumulation of 3 or 4 inches of snow. Sometimes it’s hard to judge the scale in the photos, but they will give you an idea.
It was so pretty we wanted to go outside. And, we got a few things done. I took some 3D pictures for my photo exchange.
And Karen did a little shoveling before she came to her senses. I reminded her that the snowfall hadn’t ended yet and that we did have a snow blower. So she didn’t have any problem putting the shovel down.
We also got the bird feeders filled for the first time in a couple of weeks.
Same storm came our way. We plowed the first 8 inches off the driveway and it is snowing at a rate of 2 inches per hour. They are saying 18-20 inches along the lake due to wrap around winds off the lake. We are staying put in our warm little house. Beauty pictures as always.
Every place you looked today was a photo op. Nice photos Butch. Have you got the driveway shoveled?? Sue
I can remember from my childhood getting outside and make new tracks in the snow.
Here in the NW, rain gear if the stuff you need. Man have we ever gotten a lot. Like you got snow….ours never got quite cold enough….Mt Baker – our ski area 45 minutes away…has the deepest base IN THE WORLD….how bout that.
Get out that blower…..you crazy? quite shovelin’….it’s fun for about 4 minutes.
Leah – your cuz……
I can remember from my childhood getting outside and make new tracks in the snow.
Here in the NW, rain gear if the stuff you need. Man have we ever gotten a lot. Like you got snow….ours never got quite cold enough….Mt Baker – our ski area 45 minutes away…has the deepest base IN THE WORLD….how bout that.
Get out that blower…..you crazy? quite shovelin’….it’s fun for about 4 minutes.
Leah – your cuz……
SNOW, BAH. I.m about to go to Wikipedia and see what they know about cubits. It’s p,,,,ed down rain for 3 days and we are going to need an ark. We’ve got flood warnings! Dan and Lin were w/o electrcity from early evening and all night. Dan was just making a mercy coffee run to Mickey D’s when the electricity came back on this am.Still the pictures are great Butchie.
Perhaps you would like to know that I am sitting looking out to spring like sunshine , shining onto a bed of snowdrops and daffodils – no ? perhaps not then !!!!!!