Snow! Oh how it snows!

Yes, every winter we are reminded that we live in the "arctic north"! The snow last year began on Christmas eve and stayed till April. This year it started 10 days earlier. We had two big snowfalls just before Christmas, leaving us with about 2 feet of snow.

This is after the first snowfall.

Of course, the city decided to plow our street at 5 a.m., so we didn't move our cars out of the way and they got plowed in. After an hour and a half of shoveling, we made a path... sort of a U-shaped driveway that we could drive in, around the 4-foot snow piles, and out in front of our house.after digging out the cars

The city did us a great favor a couple of weeks later when they built our own private snow playground in the parking lot next door. We had a lot of fun watching this bulldozer scrape and push the snow into an absolutely gigantic mound. As soon as it was done Sam, Abby, Augie and I explored our new funland... sledding down one side, climbing up the other, playing king of the mountain, etc. It was a lot of fun. Standing on the top of our snowpile puts you above the roof line of our house... it's probably 18 to 20 feet tall.

Augie on top of the pile.

Now that a couple more weeks have passed without new snow the pile is getting to be a sad, brown, melty mound. But it will probably stay there till May!