This Year's School Snow Day Tally: 3

A big snowstorm was predicted overnight and into this morning. It sure came! We woke up to look out the living room window to see this:

The snow is piled on top of our bushes in front of the window.

We got about 8-10", but the snow is blowing and drifting, so we have huge snowdrifts like this one we found when Josh opened the garage door. That drift on the bushes is the one you can see from the inside of the house in the first picture.

Josh measured the "little" drift in front of the garage ... 25 1/2".


Another shot of the drift in front of the living room windows


Our picnic table on the back patio

School is called off, so the kids get an extra day of Christmas vacation as the break was supposed to start on Monday.

All the snow we're getting this year and that we got last year reminds me alot of when I was little. I remember getting lots of snow, more than we've gotten in recent years (excluding this year and last). We used to have a bunch of late starts and snow days every year when I was in grade school. I think it all goes in cycles.

At any rate, I'm going to take a wild guess and say we're going to have a white Christmas this year! And just think how much more snow we'd have if we hadn't had that odd 42 degree day last week when much of what we had before melted!