Noise Pollution

The snow has deadened all sound this morning, the peace could almost be felt until .... the quiet was shattered at 5:30 am by the roar of the skid steer engine as Mark starts what seems to be his weekly job of  snow plowing. We need to leave for church by 7:45 am and he wants to have the drives cleaned off in time for Spark to get to the jail by 7:30 am. We were up anyway, the puppies woke us at 5:10 am whining loudly for breakfast. Yesterday was such a busy long day they were fed their last feeding at 9:00 pm instead of 10:00 pm. I just couldn't stay up any later. We were suppose to get 6-8 inches of snow before this storm moves along but it only looks like we got 4 inches so far and it is suppose to stop snowing by 7:00 am.