Solstice Snow

It wasn't as cold last night as the night prior, but we sure got more snow!

The winter solstice hit last night around 4 a.m. local time, which means the days get longer from here on out and we still have a few months of coldness.

Which, with seven inches of snow on the ground (over ten inches in drifts), sounds like a fun prospect.

At least the streets are passable:

It's handy to have the city's snow plows' home garage just a couple blocks away on the same street. Our street is always the first to get cleared!

We got a touch of freezing rain at the end of the night, making the top layer of the snow very icy. I had to punch the metal ruler through to get measurements. When I dropped the ruler, it clattered on the snow as if I dropped it on a hard floor.




I never finished cleaning the roof before the snow hit a week ago. I wonder how the little clumps of moss are doing, under the snow.

The wind was blowing the tiny snowflakes all over. Christina and I made snow angels in the driveway last night, but the wind nearly filled them in already.


A week ago, Christina made a snowball-sized snowman on the steps to our front yard. Can you find it now?


Even our sheltered front porch got snow blown onto it.

And this was the leeward side of the house. The windward side had three inches piled against the sliding glass door.

Merry Christmas!


We took my in-laws to lunch yesterday afternoon for a Christmas get-together. My sister-in-law spent an extra hour at her parents' apartment before heading home (after it was already snowing). She left their place at 4:30 and got on I-5. An hour later, she called us and said she was only to the 520 junction. Less than ten miles in that hour. I had hoped she would have left earlier, but . . .