Munchkin and Snow

Heavens! We went down on Thursday to Christopher's house and stayed over until Friday evening after supper. Momma went to the Doctor where she was declared fit and ready to slowly resume doing all the things she did before - and she began immediately by going for a walk with Poppa and Christopher (and Nanna) to the mall up the street. Then later she took some laundry down and came back up the stairs..........nothing like hurrying things......but she says she is all right. Nanna stayed with Christopher while Momma was at the doctor and Poppa went off to visit his cousin. Needless to say the Munchkin was an excellent child and behaved to perfection! After supper he fell asleep quite early, so Momma decided to go to bed early. We carefully prepared to make formula since the milk tap was retired for the day. Dada and Nanna were going to do duty, making formula and feeding Chris when he woke up. He kept on sleeping, so I sent Dada to bed - still expecting Chris to wake up shortly. Well............here is what Christopher's living room looked like at 1am Saturday morning........! He finally woke up at 2am and then Nanna fed him...........only to have Momma wake up anyway and come wandering out to see what was going on. She sent Poppa and Nanna to bed, settled Christopher back down again and went back to bed for a nap until morning.

We would have stayed longer, but the weather forecasters were calling for snow in our area on Saturday, so we thought we should head home. Saturday turned out to be a rainy but mild day with no snow..........or so we thought..........until Poppa headed out to the hot tub about 11pm and discovered he would have to shovel a path to get there. He wasn't too impressed. He was less impressed the next morning when he woke up to find about six inches of the white stuff all over the place and had to blow snow to get Zipper out.

It looked like so much fun to sit in the hot tub in the snow, that he shovelled it out again and we both climbed in for a soak. It was fun........snow falling on my face while the rest of me was immersed in hot, bubbly water.

Back to work today..........still lots of snow on the ground. A large portion of the area surrounding us is without power due to snow-laden trees snapping large branches and knocking out the power lines. We were without power for about three hours on Sunday morning, but have had no problems since. I understand there are still about 36,000 homes without power - which they hope to have repaired later this evening. I don't envy all those people!