Snow

 We awoke to snow and it snowed most of the day. At 6:00 am Mark went out to shovel. It was still pitch dark out but our patio light lit up the area just fine.

I took a few pictures at that time.

The line is our close line completely covered by thick wet snow.

Below is the patio table. The light made the snow sparkle likes hundreds of diamonds.

Below is Mark shoveling.

Sarah sent the picture below just before 7:00 am. Her girls were so excited to get out to play in it they had that snowman built as soon as it was light enough to see.

We met a little later for the walk, about 7:20 am.  After the walk I went right up to feed the weanlings and had to marvel at how this snow just piled up on the fences.

It was at least 4 inches by this time.

The weanlings saw me coming and came running for their grain.

Check out the bucket in the picture below. Each bucket needed to be cleaned off, turned upside down and shaken to get the snow out.  Amazing how the snow even piled up on the thin metal handle of the bucket.

I took a couple pictures of the big pine tree around 8:30 am.

My cousin Sarah posted the picture below of her mom, Aunt Sandra with Aunt Jinnie.  Both of mom's sisters together.

Aunt Sandra lives in Florida and Aunt Jinnie lives in New Jersey and mom lives here in Illinois. All three are now widows so it would be great if we could get them all in the same state sometime. Today was a stay at home day so the fridge was cleaned out, 4 loads of laundry done, the kitchen given a good cleaning and all the floors swept. Of course AC Central was on almost all day and I got to hear lots of great teaching. What a wonderful service that is. Some of the churches now have video and I'm a little partial to video but even the audio is great. Mark came home from work willing to leave for church a little early and eat supper at Hy-Vee first. The singing was really nice tonight, Tim Funk and David started out leading at the front of church, they were joined by a couple other brothers then Tim Funk had the message. When we left church tonight it is still snowing. The temps have held steady around 32 or 33 all day so the roads are pretty good but by tonight some were starting to drift over. We may be shoveling again tomorrow. One more picture, today a picture of Darcy came up. I think this was taken on her 9th birthday. She was 189 pounds of pure love.