As I shared in an earlier post, we had a little bit of snow this week. We woke up to ~6 inches of snow on Wednesday morning.
By Thursday morning, we were at a new snow record at the House of Rodgers:
We had ~18 inches!
When I stepped outside for chicken duty, the snow was almost to my knees:
My chickens were NOT happy.... they had enough of that crazy white stuff in December!
With snow drifts up to their chicken necks, they were sadly resigned to staying inside their chicken house all day (and all night) long. Poor chicks!
However, both of the kitties were content to stay inside to take catnaps:
If you look close, you can see that Mysty has white whiskers on one side of her kitty nose and dark whiskers on the other side (I love that).
Sierra tucked her tail over her kitty face when my paparazzi camera showed up:
The lighting inside our house changed with snow covering our skylights:
We had to dig Bill's car out from beneath a snow blanket. My car (a.k.a. Little Red Hot) was buried under snow next to the fence (I can't park in the new garage yet):
Another car landed in the ditch at the same corner that the schoolbus was a couple of days prior. We didn't get mail for a couple of days due to our slick hills and mounds of snow lining both sides of the street. I watched deer crossing the road in search of anything green to eat. The only sounds outside were of snow falling from overhead branches.
What I like best about snow days is that they slow things down. It doesn't pay to be in a hurry and wreck my car on the way to work. It makes me grateful for what I have (a warm, secure home) and who I get to spend it with (my best friend). They present opportunities for reading a good book (I am reading "Inside of a Dog-- What Dogs See, Smell, and Know"), watching daytime TV (like "Ellen"), or catching up on my blog. They make it worthwhile to look out the window and marvel at white snowdrifts, glistening icicles, and lazy snowflakes falling from the sky. The laundry and dishes can wait for a rainy day... literally.
HOORAY for snow days!
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