It's Cold

Not much of a newsflash for anyone living in the Midwest, but it is cold today. When I got home from San Diego yesterday it was no-coat-necessary weather (in the thirties) so I was a little surprised at how cold I was when I walked outside this morning coat-clad.

The suddenly frozen lakes should have tipped me off that it was about 9 degrees around ten this morning.

The greatest thing about this winter is that the baby will emerge from it with us.

...Sometimes Come Around

This is part two of a two part blog about the snow, which appears below. The Weather Service calculated the snow amount at about 10 inches. I'm not sure if that's what we accumulated, or what was the snowfall amount. Because of drifting, we had areas with under and inch of snow and some, as you will soon see, with feet of snow.

This is the same tree that appears in the before shot.




I like to call these Snowdunes:





Just to give you an idea of how deep that drift is:











But, trust me, I'm not complaining. We were pretty lucky. Many parts of Iowa and Southern Minnesota were blanketed with ice before the snow.

Snowy Days and Sundays

This is a two part post starting with what welcomed me into morning a few days ago:



And from the inside out:



This weekend brought the biggest storm I've witnessed yet. In anticipation, I took this shot before it began:



I'll post the after pictures tomorrow, but here's a sneak peak of the view from our window mid-storm: