the weather

So flurries are predicted AGAIN! I think it has snowed every night for the last month.

I have learned a few things about living in the snow and cold.

1. When it is -22 outside and you are all sitting breathing hot air inside the car, the windows fog up. Fairly normal and expected. However, it is when you go to wipe away the fog on the windows that you discover the unexpected, it freezes on the inside. So now, you have to use the ice scraper for the INSIDE of your windows!!

2. When you open your car door on a particularly windy and snowy day, the wind can sometimes blow snow onto your dash. Not a big deal. BUT ... when you turn on your defrost, the snow starts blowing all over your car and now you are not only scraping your windows from the inside, but you have your own personal snow storm inside the car.

3. Three and a half feet of snow in your yard does not melt at all even when it is +11 degrees outside.

So there are my lessons about the snow. Can you tell I am ready for spring?

So the kids are really up to their waists

and they are still not touching the ground.

This shovel is 4 feet tall!!