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Snow Day
The snow started 1:30 am and continued almost all of today. It wasn't snowing hard during the night only dropping a few inches but after breakfast it seemed to be coming down hard with lots of wind. The kids could hardly wait to go out and play. Below Strot is filling buckets with snow to make a snow castle.
Joan lent out the sleds and the sledding started over at the new hill. The snow was almost too fluffy to get a good fast run.
They moved to the death trails but that was the same as the cabin hill. All of this time Mark was busy plowing with the skid steer. Nolan used the 4 wheel drive truck to shuttle people over between working at their new house. The skid steer made our driveway packed and ready for action.
They would come in, sit at the fire drinking hot chocolate talking about the last run down and how they can't wait to get back out. Sometimes they wouldn't even finish their chocolate before they were back out. It was the perfect day with the temps hovering around 29 degrees but still snowing. Sarah took the pictures below.
Below are a few of the boots drying by the fire.
Of course we had to get a picture of drinking hot chocolate.
Check out the video below showing some of today's outdoor fun.
We ended up with 8 inches of snow on the ground. Both Mark and I did a lot of shoveling and he plowed twice today.
I left the kids at the barn then took the golf cart home to start on supper. Tonight we had spaghetti with meat sauce, mozzarella cheese, cottage cheese, salad, fried in butter Hawaiian rolls and brownies for dessert. The kids played in the gym after supper while we adults visited. Tim and Allie's plane is supposed to fly out tomorrow morning around 10:30 am so Nolan will drive them in with the 4 wheel drive truck. This evening Nolan's work truck got stuck in the drive with one tire off the road over the ravine. Mark tried to pull it backwards using the tractor but the drive was so slick instead of going backwards it went sideways and ended up with both front tires and one back tire over the edge above the ravine. They called a tow truck and that is on the way! A notice was sent out to all who live here just in case someone needed to leave the neighborhood or come home before the tow truck arrives but at this time of night I think all are already home in bed as we hope to be soon.
