Snow Days/Snow Daze

I thought I’d take a short break from the sales series to share a pictures of how the weather is effecting us in Gaston, Oregon.

These first two are from a few days ago when we thought we had a lot of snow.

Poor Kevin had to park at the bottom of our LONG, STEEP driveway and walk up.

The snow grew heavy enough with a little rain that Andrea was able to make a snow woman.

Take another look at those pictures and the vehicles in the background.

I took this picture this afternoon. Our patio table and deck chairs make a cool, modern art statement. I call it Snow Flower.

This is our yard. There’s about a foot of powder, then a one-inch-thick sheet of ice, and four inches of powder on top of that. We’ve tried to shovel off the trampoline, but it’s saggier than the Saggy, Baggy Elephant. And see those cars to the right? Or don’t see them? I can’t believe the difference from the first pictures!

The view from our front door. There are three steps to get into the house. Truly, there are. That’s another car completely covered in snow.

Andrea out in front of Mom’s door. The vine has several birds perched on it.

Mom even got one happy little birdy to get on Andrea’s finger. (Yes, it did eventually poop, as any bird that lands on a human must.) Later, when she took her hat off, several came and tried to make it a nest.

This was also taken a few days ago, but look at the view! I love the hazy hills through the snow, the flocked trees. How many people see this from their kitchen sink?

Kevin’s been driving his four-wheel drive truck to work and back, but he has to park it at the neighbors. Before the snow got so deep, he was able to ferry things back and forth on our four-wheeler. Since the conditions are so impassable now, he must hike. Today he carried the Christmas ham plus other essential groceries for the holiday meals. At least we didn’t force him to get the 10# bag of potatoes Mom needed!

If my count is right, today was the ninth day in a row that it snowed. Christmas doesn’t look like it can happen here, because my grandparents CANNOT hike up through that much snow, so we might cart the whole meal and all the presents down the hill and take Christmas to them. Hey, why not take the whole tree as well!