When Will It Stop?

That is what we kept asking ourselves about the snow. After it snowed on Thursday morning we had a bit of a reprieve on Friday and were able to get out to lunch and to the grocery story. But Saturday afternoon at about 2 PM the snow started and it didn't stop until sometime late Sunday night!! I like snow, but when it never stops and you start to worry about trees losing limbs and losing power or how much snow can our deck really hold it is time to stop snowing!

We watched the Christmas ships go by Saturday night. Pictures didn't really turn out as it was snowing (it was hard enough to see the ships in person). There were only 6 ships this year, in the past there have been as many a 30, but I am guessing most people just wanted to stay home for fear that they couldn't get back if they left. Dillon was very excited when he heard Santa and kept saying "hi" to him. Santa said "hi" to Dillon a bit before our house so we just barely got to hear him. At one point our neighbor, Bob, came outside and said "Hi, Dillon this is is Santa". Dillon saw right through it and excitedly said "Hi, Bob!" Can't fool him!!

Sunday it just snowed and snowed and snowed. It snowed so hard that for the majority of the day we couldn't see across the water. We needed to get out of the house for a little bit so we walked down to Gram and Papas. Glad we finally had a use for the backpack carrier. I think Dillon enjoyed the ride. He definitely liked the change in scenery.

Sunday morning.
Rocky Point Road - looks a bit like Minnesota doesn't it?!
Sunday night, poor birdies aren't getting any food. But don't worry mom and dad have practically a buffet set up for them.


We ended up losing power for about 45 minutes Sunday evening but luckily it wasn't out for long. Just when I was about to cook some soup on the fireplace the power came back on and never went out again.

Monday morning when we woke up there was a total of 9 inches on the ground!!! Art unburied our cars today before anymore snow has a chance to pile up on what is already there. He even went out shopping for a while today and said it wasn't too bad. I think having the temperature actually above freezing (35 degrees!), sun out and clear skies today really helped to start melting some of the snow, but by evening we were back the 20s and everything was frozen once again.






Look what he drove out of!!!
Dillon had a hard time walking in the snow as it came half way up his legs. But he had fun for a little bit. He wanted to help wipe snow off the cars.



But what he really wanted to do was ride his tricycle, sorry no where to go buddy.