Snow!

This seems so crazy as I'm sitting here writing about this in June. But, we had some snow this past winter. :) And by some snow, I mean we broke the record for snowfall in a winter. It was crazy! And fun. And we'd get a good snow, and then the next week another.  And then another. All within about a month and a half. It never really had any time to melt, and somehow that last storm just put it over the top. After that last storm the snow was unbelievably high. I've never seen it that high before. We thought it might never melt. But as the a/c is running now, I guess it did. :)

Luckily we had been storing our friends snowblower in our shed since last summer. We decided to just buy the snowblower from them right before the first snow storm. It was a good choice. :)

After the first snow storm, Alan thought it would be fun to run all the way to the trees and back. He did it. And I don't think it turned out to be quite as fun as he thought. :)

Since we live at the end of the street, the plow always leaves a nice pile to play in. Thankfully he pushed it farther back than I have ever seen before with the first snow. Which turned out to be a very good thing because by the end of the storms, it came out to the edge of our driveway.

Oh, the ice dams. The roof was a constant battle this winter. I swear I spend most of my time raking the roof or filling nylons with ice melt so that we could melt some of these ice dams. Scott had to get up on the roof here and melt away a dam when we got a little water in our bathroom.

It was kind of fun. And kind of crazy. And got less fun as the winter went on. :) He eventually had to get up there and just shovel all of the snow off before the last storm. It was a very good thing that he did. And we just got a ton more insulation in our attic, so hopefully this will be less of a problem next winter. :)

We figure there is about 4 feet out there at this point. Our garden fence is 4 feet high and you could barely see the top of it. This little play structure is a little over 4 feet as well.

We have these huge holly bushes that were completely covered. This little sprig sticking out is our first sign of spring. :)

Looking back it was crazy. It was really crazy. They were fun storms though, except for constant battle with the roof. That got old. But a lot of people were a lot worse off there than we were. I'm thinking next year, it should be a mild winter. Now that we've gotten the insulation and roofing worked out you know. :)