Around Christmas we had a really great snow storm. The kind of storm that shuts down local shops and sends kids running around with sleds in tow. It was beautiful, peaceful. It was a white Christmas.

Then another storm came. Ok, an additional foot of snow fell. Two feet of snow is good. Great for sledding, still looks very pretty. Shoveling is becoming a bit tiresome at this point, but it can't last forever.

Another storm hit over the weekend. Temps fell below zero (mean