More Snow - and Lots of it!

Wow - it started snowing sometime Friday night and hasn't really stopped yet! Apparently our neighborhood got 8 inches. We're supposed to get more today (Monday) and Tuesday, with potential for more later this week. Great for the mountains, but I really need to find my snow scraper. Maybe if my car just never left the garage....


Bill and I went skiing on Sunday with our friends Robin and Michael, while our Sunday sitter Amanda braved the snow to come to our house and watch our kids. Apparently they behaved themselves (excellent!), and we got some great turns in fresh powder. It was beautiful up there - all the trees are just piled with snow, and the snow fell most of the day. The only problem was that Robin and I both somehow almost got frostbite on the lift on our third run of the day! Michael had just been talking about how the tip of his nose had gotten frostbitten a few years before and how it's still cold-sensitive. We all got off the lift, when I looked at Robin and said 'Robin! The tip of your nose is all white!'. She said "oh my God - so is yours!" Luckily we had stuffed those full face-masks in our pocket when we left the car, so we were able to cover our noses right away and get some pink back. Whew! That would not have been good.

We did look like hoodlums the rest of the day, though, with black ski masks. Nice.