Kelly, Ed, Izzabella, Kathryn & Eric
Ed & family joined us for lunch, conversation and games on Sunday.
Valentine’s Day Blizzard
Over the past 24 hours we received 18″ of snow on top of all the previous lake effect snows. This was one of those shovel & plow twice days, just to keep ahead of the accumulating snow. You can see our snow is starting to add up. Look at the snow piled around our 4′ 3-board fence.
We went out and played on the snow piles before dinner. We have some 8′ piles where the snow has been plowed from the driveway. I took this picture at the end of our driveway looking at part of the snow pile - 4 year old child is shown for purposes of scale.
The snow piles are good for games of King of the Mountain and short, but fast, sled rides. Here Eric takes a ride as it is getting dark - the flash shows that it is still snowing.
Our weekend
Saturday I spent a couple hours shovelling snow around the deck, mailbox, oil tank access and paths for the dog to access the lawn. Kathryn took Eric grocery shopping and got Billy, Billie Jo and Dakota for Dakota’s year 2 birthday celebration. Below Dakota debates what to do with her candle.
Eric and Dakota work at puzzles on Dakota’s new play table.
Saturday evening we went to Brad Bennett’s 50th birthday party and caught up with a number of people we hadn’t seen in a while. Sunday Kathryn and I went to the SU vs. Saint John’s basketball game (SU 76-74).
Snow Bow
There was light snow in the air when I awoke the other morning causing a nice snow bow with the sunrise.
Eric’s Checkup
Eric recently had his year 4 physical and check up - all systems normal. The nurse was entering his data in a laptop and asked him if he knew what letter his name began with. He looked at her and said “E” - that’s Eric, “E”, “R”, “I”, “C”. She nodded, entered the data and said “Aren’t you smart”! Then the nurse asked “Do you know who you live with?” Eric looked at her like how did you get this far? - and said yes - Mom - that’s “M”, “O”, “M” and Dad - that’s “D”, “A”, “D”.