Truly a Winter Wonderland

Like many others, I'm a die-hard snow fan. I remember the days of crawling into bed, crossing my fingers, and wishing on a star for a snowy day. Well, I think after twenty years of hoping, I've hit the jackpot of all snow days, combined. I'm not one look a gift horse in the mouth, but I'm questioning weather or not it's possible to have too much snow. 

I will always love snow, but it's CRAZY outside. Usually a Portland winter consists of an inch or two of snow, but mostly rain. Whenever snow is in the forecast, people get out their chains, the city salts the road, and they stand at the door ready for shovels 

and plows. Well, this year, it was an unexpected storm that left everyone standing at their door with an open jaw instead of an open bucket of de-icing solvent. 

We had a record beating 15 inches of snow. In 1968 we had 14. Wowza! 

*Days have past since I finished this blog, so here's the snow update*

Snow. What snow? We had fifteen inches of snow? Ha, you could have fooled me. In a mater of a couple of days all of the winter wonderland lala sloshed away with the buckets of rain we have received. Even though it's gone, I am inclined to post some snow highlights. Skipper's very first snow!! He loved it. I'd throw a snowball for him to chase and he'd run after it, and then dig his nose into the snow to try and find it. He'd also catch the snowballs and eat it. Oh Skipper...what a character.

After a week with snow on the ground I started to wonder if we'd ever see the color of pavement again. I also began to wonder if I would ever drive my car, it was sorta tucked into a blanket of snow, including our Toyota Previa. I questioned if it was still out there. It had 15 inches on top of it...crazy. 

And now, for my personal favorite: Those ambitious ones who think they can make it up our hill. I've lost count of how many people got stuck outside our house. We always poke our head out the window to watch the cars as there tires spin, and their car slides to a halt. Here's a bus that thought they could make it, got stuck, and began the process of trying to turn around. Surprisingly, they made it back down the hill, about an hour later. 

And to top it off, here are a few random snow pictures. I enjoyed it, but now we're back to the rainy winter that we are used to, and the snow-filled two weeks that we had...a distant memory.