Winter wonderland

I'm always a little surprised when it snows here, but this is just crazy!  I shoveled about 8-10 inches off our front walk last night before bed, and woke to find another 4 inches had fallen.  It's still snowing 8 hours later.  I guess more shoveling is in my future when Don gets home.
It's a busy time of year at work, so even though we're closed for the day (maybe tomorrow too?) I thought I'd brave the weather to get my office laptop and bring it home to get some work done.  I walked a bit, found a bus headed the right direction, ended up on a snow-route detour that passed by three stuck buses going the other direction, got off the bus and walked another 3/4 mile to my building, found that the key-card reader was frozen, turned around, walked to Toast, had yummy biscuits and gravy (I don't think there is a more perfect meal than that for a snowy day after a long hike), walked home.  No computer, but the walk was so great!  The feeling of being in a remote location in the middle of town.  Few cars, few people, walking in the tire ruts in the snow on the street.
Our backyard, as seen from the warm indoors.  Looks like well over a foot of snow on the picnic table!

Life in a town without plows is strange, because weather will cause the city to shut down.  But people eventually get stir crazy, so it was good that Don was able to open the restaurant and serve the neighborhood folks who walked in.  No plows means we might be stuck in our neighborhood for a while.

Yesterday I was the one going stir-crazy with a stir-crazy Gretchen, so we invited our neighbors over (who also happen to watch Gretchen for us).  Once Don got home from work he started a band with the boys while the girls watched and ate some yummy snacks.

Having gotten over our stir-craziness, Gretchen and I are having fun listening to Christmas music and tearing the house apart today.

Comments

Anonymous said…
You finally wrote a blog entry! I guess that's a benefit of being snowed in, eh? I had a similar -- but shorter -- walk in the tire ruts around the neighborhood to get Ben to sleep today. (We used the snowsuit and it worked very well, thanks!) It really is wonderful and so pretty because the blanket of white is practically undisturbed.
9:27 PM
Betsy said…
Hooray!! Look at that sweet little girl!! I must kiss her.
Did she go along for the hike? Or was she at daycare that day. I hope you're enjoying the rare snow. I hadn't even thought of the lack of snowplows! So different from here, where the guy across the street parks one in his driveway...not that he uses it to plow our drive...jerk....anyway...
Hugs and kisses! Wish we could get together for hot cocoa and cookies this holiday.
6:52 AM
Anonymous said…
Thanks so much for all the pictures! I love to see Gretchen's hair growing, and growing redder, and the beautiful way the wind evidently curved the snow cap on your picnic table. Over a foot of snow in Portland, but virtually none in the Vosges mountains--home to several ski resorts! and about an inch of snow fell while we were in Paris on Monday, but that was enough to cause problems--melthy, slushy snow, at that. Someone told me that Sweden is predicted to be the "new Mediterranean."
11:44 AM
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