Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow . . .

Well the rain went away and last week surprised us all with warmer than normal weather, clear sunny days, absolutely beautiful weather! The daffodils and crocus even thought so. Valentines Day we awoke with a great surprise! It had snowed overnight. This was an unpredicted surprise but one that was welcomed with many "yahoos" and "all rights" and "this is cool"! Oh yeah, the big one, great, NO SCHOOL!! Luckily enough there was not enough snow for that. Before we left it really started coming down in nice fluffy flakes! I guess we had a cold front move in from Canada combined with the moisture we had made perfect snow conditions for us. We are supposed to have cold weather the rest of this week and snow again Thursday and Friday. We will see if that develops. There is always a lot of hype about it and then it never comes so, we will wait . . .

Rain, rain go away . . .

Our pristine creeks are full and very muddy! They usually are very clear, but lately with all the rain that we have had they runneth over! To top off the rain we have had wind. The trees just cannot take it and topple over. The boys were outside one day and came running in a little freightened (as freightened as a 13-year-old will let you know he is) saying that there were trees falling on the hill, they could hear them hitting the ground. They decided that it was time to stay in after that! The little school bus hut that has been a landmark and also the marker to our gravel lane was squished by one such tree. Shawn and the kids literally had to cut themselves out to get to school one morning. There were 2 trees across the road. They were about an hour late for school, but did not mind much!

It was 1996 when we had the last big flood. The creek that you see nearly up to the side of the road is the one that washed out during that flood leaving us stranded for 3 days and taking 10 loads of rock to fill in. We had a hole about 30 feet across and about 10 foot deep when it washed out in 1996. We have been close a couple of times of having it crest the banks, but so far it has held up very well.

One report I heard is that we have had 20 inches of rain since January 1, 2006! That is lot of rain. The ground shows it too. It is like a wet sponge, you step on it and water seeps out around your feet.

From what I hear we should be seeing the sun this week! It was clear and cold last night, frost on the ground this morning when we awoke. I guess all this rain will make for a beautiful spring!