As you can see from the view off the deck this morning, winter is upon us...no looking back.
Guerin had a two hour delay this morning to deal with the snowy roads, snow covered driveway, and to clear off the parking lot, so Matt and I got to sleep in a bit and hang around the house this morning in our jammies marveling at the accumulated four inches of snow. Four inches of snow pretty much paralyzes the folks around here...in northeast Iowa this is a mere dusting and no one would dream of staying home or being on a two-hour delay.
It looked really beautiful in the early morning quietness. Mark snowplowed the driveway and Alex trudged off to the bus stop as CHS did not have a two hour delay, being business as usual there, compliments of our tax dollars at work as the snowplows, etc. usually clear out the Carmel school lots and drives as a top priority on days like this.
The true appreciation for all things cold and snowy, however, is most obvious today in the four legged critters of Tibetan origin...Pippin and Vash could not wait to get outside and frolic about in all this glorious white powder. It is fun watching them jumping, playing, and trying to eat the snow as it is floating down. Almost makes me want to go out and join them...almost...well, okay, maybe just for one second or possibly two.