Snow!

Today was one of the most beautiful days of the whole winter. I spoiled myself today and stayed inside my cozy little house and just enjoyed looking out on all the snow. I had intended to get all the laundry done, but we haven't had more than a drip of water out of the pipes all day, so that didn't happen. Do I care? Not really.

I attended a nearly four hour training session at Women's Resource Center yesterday afternoon. When we (Amy met me there after her boss dropped her off) left there at 6:00, the van was still covered with snow but the roads were clear. As I was driving home on the highway, the traffic was stopped. Monday night there was a bad four car accident in nearly the same spot and I was hoping no one was injured again. This morning we learned that they closed the highway simply because of the heavy winds and blowing snow. We turned around and came home on Road 6 instead. The weather didn't seem all that bad, but started snowing hard after we got home--and didn't quit. We awoke this morning to about 7" of snow. Talk about beautiful!

Our helpful neighbor Don came over first thing and drove his truck around so that we could get our vehicles out if we wanted. He didn't want us to have to shovel through the drifts. Isn't that nice? Don and Lillian are great neighbors.

I intended to do a lot of cooking today, but with no water, I decided not to dirty so many dishes. I hauled water again--didn't think I'd be doing that again so soon--and heated it on the woodstove. That is a nice reason to have a wood burning stove.

I'm going to figure out how to post some photos on this site. Enjoy them when they show up. I'll try to put captions with them, too. We'll see.