Winter Wonderland

After the holidays, have you ever felt a bit bloated from all the fantastic food?  Kind of like Dawn's snowman, after all that food our body shape changes a bit then we spend most of the new year trying to shed that unwanted side effect of the Christmas season!  By the way, that is the same snowman that I posted the last two days and you can see how much snow we have been pounded with - although it looks much shorter, I can assure you that it is just an optical illusion with the 28"+ of snow piled around it!

In fact, here is the same Nativity that I shared with you last week.  On Saturday, I pulled it all up out of the snow thinking that maybe Jesus was getting a bit chilly from the three inch blanket of snow he had covering him up.  Now they must be igloo dwellers because all they look like is a little bump in the snow!  Even the really tall wooden (plastic) soldiers in the background are up to their chests in the chilly white stuff!

Remember the 25" piece of cornerbead I put in the snow on this table?  All covered up by this morning when I took this picture, after which it continued to snow all day!  The mushroom top on the table is now smooth showing no sign of the cornerbead at all and the sides of the snow are now almost touching the snow piled up on the deck!

And here is Bear's mansion.  Of course, the doorway is under the left dormer totally covered in snow!  Guess he won't be using that any time soon!  I could dig it out, but truth be told, he is a baby and spends all of his time inside leaving hair all over the house and sucking up heat from the fireplace whenever he can.

This is the first time I can remember having to plow six times in three days since we moved here in 1992.  True, last year we had a ton of snow throughout the winter months, but we couldn't remember as much snow falling in such a short time as we have received from this storm.  CRAZY!  Hopefully they will let us go back to school tomorrow (they called off today)!