Christmas snow

Between Christmas and New Year we had more snow, storms, and cold. Like I mentioned before, the old timers around here likened the winter of '08-'09 to "the good ol' days of winter weather". I drove the rural mail route for the area for six years as a substitute and this was the first year in that amount of time, and longer, that we could only deliver mail for about half of the customers. Roads were blocked and if the plows had not come yet, we had to turn around. A couple of times I had to take my Jeep on the route and I still couldn't get very far.
Here Karen took a picture of me as I am walking home from the post office one evening. It sure was nice to get home where Karen usually had a big pot of soup on the stove.

One night during this time, the snow came again and the wind blew and drifted it in everywhere. Karen would look out the window and say, "Look, we have more diamonds in the yard!!"

The next morning, when Karen was ready to go out to take care of her cats, we could just get the storm door open. Stepping down to the porch from the house is about an 8 inch drop. Besides the snow filling in the steps, it had of course drifted in all our walk ways that we were so diligent in keeping clean. Oh well, what else do we have to do but shovel more snow?

And by now, the picnic table was getting deeper into the snow too.......

Here the front walkway, which we kept clear all the time, was all drifted in again. But look....it is such a nice day out there that what more fun could we have but to shovel more snow!!!!!

See the cat trail coming up the walk? That is why Karen liked to keep in cleared off. She like to have happy cats!