More Snow

The snow has continued slowly but surely over the past few days. Nothing has melted, so it just keeps accumulating. We have shoveled the patio and front walk a couple of times, and it just keeps coming back. I would say we have between 10-12 inches, though it is hard to tell from the pictures.

This one is from the second story of our home looking into the backyard. The wall is 10 feet tall.


This one is looking over the wall at the safeway parking lot behind our house.

Winter Wonderland

We don't get a lot of snow in the Portland Metro area, our specialty is rain. Once in awhile though, things line up just right and a cold front coincides with some moisture. Over the past week, the weather hasn't been able to decide what it wants to do. It's been cold and dry, warmer and wet, it has even snowed, but just hasn't piled up yet. Well, last night it started snowing big fluffy flakes and it was cold enough to stick!! It has been snowing off and on most of the day today and we have about 5" of snow by 5:00 pm Saturday night. It's still snowing, but is supposed to turn into freezing rain sometime tonight. To many areas of the country, snow is just a fact of life and something to deal with every year. To us, it's just plain fun!

Amy demonstrates how to use a poor man's snowboard.
















Matthew is up next...
















Matthew contemplates his next run down the driveway...



December 20, 2008