Blizzard 2017!

Last year we had hardly any snow, even though we had a late in season (early spring) snow that killed lots of flowers and the flowers on lots of trees. This year we haven't had much more, the two snow days and few delays used were over very small amounts of snow because it was more the timing that made bus transportation dangerous more than the amount of precipitation. Now that is no longer the case. After basically every other big storm missing us the last two years we were right in the middle of the blizzard. It was fun to have snowed in, Gavin enjoyed having two days off. Even though the snow ended yesterday, two feet of snow was too much for them to manage to clean up enough to have school today. We enjoyed several trips out to play before the snow had actually accumulated to two feet. We had fun playing and helping Scott as he ran the snow blower. The kids were thrilled to come in and warm up with hot chocolate. It was fun, until the reality of how long it will take two feet of snow to melt (and that you don't want it to melt too quickly or everyone will end up with flooding issues, even those of us that don't usually have flooding issues) and how the end of winter was in sight and now who knows when it might warm up and everything might continue to grow. The trees were already budding, flowers starting to grow, and the grass was looking more green and less dull.

Hopefully, it won't take too long for spring to show up, since the first day of spring is next week, but who knows. Until then, it was fun to be snowed in and we are grateful that we didn't lose power.