Friday, December 09, 2005

Our First Big Snow of the Season

Wednesday night we had our first "major" snow storm of the season. It must have dropped about 8-10 inches.

We are lucky to have a neighbor who has a snow blower. It wasn't long on Thursday morning before Gale came over and managed to blow the snow off of the driveway. It would have taken me several hours to get it done with the old snow shovel. This was the first year that Maryann was able to wield a shovel and broom on the walkway from the front door to the driveway. We were both ecstatic about her being able to do that. It must have been at least eight years since she was able to do it.

You may remember pictures I posted about the patio. Well here is what it looked like this afternoon. That has got to be almost a foot of snow on the table. The fence is six feet in height. It will take a while for it all to melt.

The kids were happy about all of the snow. They got two snow days. Many of them live in the county and the roads are not all that safe to travel in such weather. With a warming trend coming this weekend they will be able to have classes next week.

2 comments:

Polly said...

Wowee. I can't imagine. Living here in the sub tropics it is quite a sight to see the beauty of snow.
The humidity here is like breathing in water. The cicadas are singing sounding like Christmas to us in the Southern Hemisphere.
It is lovely to see your home before the snow and now with the white cloak draped around it.
This is the last day for school here for 6 weeks so the beaches will start to fill up now.
What a beautiful world! Vive le difference!

shannon said...

What a wonderful neighbor you have! I love that you live in a place where all that goodness surrounds you...

I'm also glad I live in a place where IF we see snow it's gone pretty quickly (and the city completely shuts down so I get snow days too!).

Love to you and Mom!