Ahhhh the snow is finally melting

We had a wonderful Christmas Eve/Day, I loaded a bunch of pictures on my picasa also

The whitest Christmas in the NW

Well, there's another storm headed our way. We're looking at another 4-8" tomorrow, Christmas Eve. We only need another 1.5" of snow to beat the all time December snow fall record for our area. I have never seen this much snow here, and I can't believe how much we are going to have for Christmas! Our 14+" haven't even melted yet!

George decided to combat cabin fever by shoveling the walkway by the front door...it started snowing again just as he finished!

Welcome to Winter!

So I just realized it's Dec 21st, the first day of winter! George went out and took some more pictures from the road. It snow a little more earlier today, and we might get 2-4 more inches tonight/tomorrow. Yeah...it's a lot of snow...I don't know if we've had this much snow here before, not that I remember!

Freezing rain

So it started raining last night around 10pm, nice freezing rain. Now all our nice snow is covered in a 1/4 inch of ice. It's still at 22* out there! George just went down to give the chickens some water and had to stomp his way down through the ice so he didn't fall. I have seen a few cars on the main road (Ward RD) from our window and they are going really slow. I can't believe people are out there driving at all!

Our little bird feeder all covered with snow

Mr Ben is snow dog! He loves the snow and the cold weather. His coat is so thick he was sleeping in the snow last night!

Snowed in with no internet!!!!

Oh internet how I have missed thee......It's been out since mid morning yesterday and we have all been a little stir crazy stuck in the house. One can only read for so long before you want to check the weather/email/blogs/anything interesting..... So yay! It's back! Now we just hope not to lose power with the storm. Icy is supposed to start tonight/tomorrow and be about 1/2 inch over the 8 or so inches of snow we have! Ick!
George and I went for a walk this afternoon and played in the snow for a while. Yesterday the snow was nice and wet, good packing snow for the snowman etc. Today it was really dry and powdery, good for flinging at each other but that's about it. The dogs think its great, with their heavy winter coats they think the temp is just fine! We're at, let me go see......about 22* right now brrrrrr!! It's supposed to snow all night too so we might get a foot before this is over :) I loaded some more pictures into my picasa album and will add more of the icy tomorrow.
Oh and I put up some pretty window decorations, I'll get some pictures of that too. Hope everyone else is staying warm! We'll play in the snow for you all again tomorrow.