3 February 2015

We got a foot or so of snow on Sunday.  It started snowing just after midnight and basically snowed until just after midnight again.  We shoveled twice on Sunday and there was still at least six inches on the ground Monday morning to clear off.  Fortunately Monday was a beautiful day- sunny and clear, and not too cold and not too windy.  The kids spent a good chunk of the day outside playing (once we'd convinced Bobo to go outside - he's very resistant to putting on his snow gear) and went sledding down the four foot heaps of snow piled up beside the driveway.  Nut Brown burrowed out a snow cave, and later Rose Pink and some friends turned it into a tunnel.  Although Bobo hadn't wanted to go outside at first, once he got out he didn't want to come back in!

Mr. Brown and I shoveled a tremendous amount of snow off our driveway, and then we spent the day pushing our neighbors' cars out of the snow as they came out to try and go various places.  The Mustang across the street had to go in to work, although he'd tried to call in; the Saab next door had to go to the store to get more Gatorade because they were all sick with the flu - we pushed him to the corner and then when he came back we pushed him back from the corner; the Focus across the street struggled to get back in his driveway after work; and the Jetta on the other side of us had trouble moving away from the curb to get off the street for plowing.  Lots of pushing.  Lots of good neighbor karma.  The city plows came by about 10 pm, so we went out and shoved out our driveway (and the sidewalk again since it threw the snow way up there), and we shoveled out the flu neighbors' driveway as well.  The Focus neighbor came across and helped me with it.

Last night Mr. Brown drove us safely over the to a friend's house for dissection night: this time we were dissecting sheep brains.  We didn't get stuck once, because he's really good at driving in the snow.  Also because he had built up all the karma from earlier in the day, I'm sure!  Mr. Brown pushed more people out of the snow there as everyone was leaving, because the plows hadn't gotten to their neighborhood yet either.

We had a lovely day - all that sunshine and a lot of hard work and helping!