let it snow

As anyone in the Northern Indiana knows right now, we are going to have a lot of snow. Probably already a foot on the ground, another couple inches today, some more tomorrow, and with below zero temperatures at the end of the week, its not going anywhere. We like snow in our household, although my opinion of it is much more tempered than Jackie's. I like it if I can stay inside and watch it fall, and perhaps go out and throw some snowballs and whatnot. I don't particularly care for it when I have to drive in it or shovel it.

Our driveway looked like this on Saturday morning. That was at about 6 inches. We went out in the morning to shovel, with Jackie looking particularly happy, although I'm not sure why she gets so happy about shoveling (she attempts to explain some of that odd passion here).

So were out there for about 5 minutes and one of our neighbors comes out, with his lawnmower with a blade attached to it, and clears his driveway in about ten minutes. I look at Jackie and say that we need to get on of those. Our neighbor was generous and gracious enough to notice that we would be shoveling for another 30 minutes or so and came over and helped cleared the rest of our driveway in probably less than ten minutes. I tell Jackie again that we seriously need to get one of those. We chatted with the neighbor (Roger) for a little bit, and were, and still are, extremely thankful for his kindness. (And he was smart, he's in Florida now enjoying nicer weather and avoiding our blizzard and sub-zero temps.)

Because it kept snowing, we were out again on Sunday morning to shovel a couple more inches off the driveway, and the way things are looking today and into tomorrow, we will be shoveling again sometime tomorrow. At least we really don't have anywhere to go (except for work of course), so I guess I can join Jackie in saying "let it snow."

And I almost forgot, the most fun of the weekend was had in Jackie getting stranded in the school parking lot, in part because it hadn't been plowed and she was parked at the bottom of the parking lot, which slants down towards the school. So I had to go over and play musical car seats between our two vehicles to get them back up the parking lot. Jackie's much funnier recap is here.

Hopefully another post later today with pictures of our new puppy!