After almost 10 days of snow (ending on the day after Christmas), the snow is mostly melted off now. There's still a couple inches on the back deck (down from 12" accumulation). In all I think the total snowfall was around 18" at my place - not much considering some of the surrounding areas got three times what we did. So I'm not complaining... Michele only got her car stuck twice on our own driveway... For next winter I think I am gonna have to check into a snow plow that attaches to my lawn tractor I think, if only just to clear my loooooong driveway.

Finally today I was able to get the BMW out of the garage and on the road again. I cleared enough of the snow and ice off the driveway and the rest has pretty much melted off. There is still some snow around on the ground and on the road up my hill but it's not a problem any more. Feels nice to drive my car for once rather than the big giant truck... However, the truck did very well in the snow for me for the last couple weeks. There were only a couple days I think that it couldn't have coped with the snowfall, but I had tendonitis in my foot and couldn't hardly walk anyway those days. It's been nice to have the snow but after a couple weeks the charm wears off. So many of the stores' shelves are bare around town because people stocked up and new deliveries are backed up or can't get over the pass it seems.

It's been above freezing since before Christmas eve, but not too far. So, the snow is slowly melting - which is good since we don't want to get flooded again like '96 when we had two feet of snow and then a warm heavy rain... Now the winds are supposed to be back. Today the winds were whipping quite a lot, so am not looking forward to the predicted storms for the 30th and the first of the year. Having the power out for a couple hours on Christmas day was kind of a drag. But now I guess if I have to fire up the generator again at least I won't have to trudge through a foot of snow just to get to it. And it could probably use new fuel with Stabil and a tune-up anyway also. Fortunately the power was only out a couple of hours and I didn't have to drag the second gen out to the well house through the snow to power the water pump. We'll see what happens with the weather this week...