Snow Day!

So we woke up to snow today! Those of us who had listened/watched the weather reports knew this was coming. The only uncertainties: (1) How much would fall; (2) When would it start and stop; (3) Would school be delayed or closed?

The pic above was taken about 6:30 or 7:00a.m. I think at that point we had about 3 inches. Now those of us who have in the past or even now still live(d) in heavy snow country: We know that 3" is not much snow. And if our schools drew students only from HR proper, we probably would have gone ahead and had school. But we draw students from the slopes of Mt. Hood. And if we got 3" by the start of day, they probably already had close to a foot of snow. Thus, school was canceled for today.

Here is the vid I took at the same time as the above. With sound you can get a little commentary from yours truly.

And the snow was still coming!

In my defense, I must say that I shoveled the snow first (before the pics below). And I'll explain about the following pics in a moment.

After I awakened bw, I suggested that we walk to Shari's restaurant for breakfast. It's about a mile away--or less perhaps. She was NOT excited about that. So I said fine. But I still wanted to go. So I remained very calm about it and just explained that that's fine if she did not want to go. But I still wanted to. So I would walk there alone. Well, I was almost out the door when she said "Darling! Wait for me!" So we walked together.
By then, the snow was about 5 inches. The area nearest our condo had no tire tracks or anything. So for the first section we had to trudge through the snow. But then we got to tire tracks and that made it easier. And when we got to the street, those had already been plowed. So the walking was easy. But we had to watch out for car/truck traffic, because the sidewalks were still buried.
After breakfast, we walked back home. Saw our pastor's wife and another lady from the church driving by. They stopped and cheered us on for enjoying a walk in the snow. When we got back home, bw decided to shovel some of the snow. Meanwhile, I got my tape measure and checked the depth on the sidewalk in front of the condo (away from where any shoveled snow had landed). By now it was up to 6 inches on the tape measure.
I tried to get bw to come inside for hot chocolate (we eventually did enjoy some). But by this point, she was enjoying the snow so much--and even enjoying shoveling it--that she wanted to stay out and keep shoveling until the hot chocolate was ready.

I did not protest.

Thus the pics of bw shoveling.

Supposed to get rain this afternoon and then precip stopping some time tonight. Probably back to routine tomorrow.

BTW: Still snowing at Noon our time--sometimes heavy; sometimes light. But still steady.



Thanks for reading!

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