The Snowy Winter

Its snowing yet again. With all of the snow we've been receiving this winter, and with the word 'snow' being a as common a household name as the word 'milk', one would think that her Royal highness would have nailed down the proper pronunciation for the word. Instead, she is still calling it "hoe," and happily announces when it is "hoeing", and is excited to build a "hoeman".

My 'quick' trip into town on Friday afternoon, at the beginning of this most recent dumping of snow, didn't end up quite as 'quick' as I had planned. The lengthiness wasn't attributed to the slow drive home due to quick accumulation on our little windy highway home. The lengthiness of the trip had a lot more to do with how long it took to drop off library books and pick up a few necessary groceries. The wonderful thing about "small town" is that people like to talk with each other - even if you may not know them very well!! Even when I am in a hurry, I still really enjoy this chatter.

As you may have already guessed, I had many, many conversations about the weather with just about everyone I smiled at - the produce manager at our local grocery, a complete stranger in the dairy aisle, the cashier, several librarians and of course, the conversation on the cell phone with the Apple Farmer! From what I've gathered from the locals, this is an extremely unusual winter. LOTS more snow than normal. However, an old timer said that this type of winter snow accumulation is more typical to what they used to get here during the good ol' days - snow would be piled high above the tops of cars each winter.

We will be celebrating five years on our farm on the 18th of march! This year the snowmobile has gotten the most use out of all of these past winters! This video clip was taken a few days ago when we were figuring that it was likely one of the last rides we would be taking this winter! Now I have four happy boys and a happy little girl who know that we will be getting the snowmobile out tomorrow for some more fun. I'm pretty happy too!