Oops

I had considered joining this gym to use their pool. It is conveniently located across the street from my son's school. Now I am glad I found other pools to use. That might have been me in there.

Has it stopped snowing yet?

What a white Christmas looks like. Those ruts are deeper than the bottom of my car is tall. Driving over them is as exciting as navigating a shallow harbor at low tide. The pile by the mailbox is higher in this picture than it was last January after the big snow. It is even taller now. The street has been plowed again, and at least 8 inches have fallen since that. Our next door neighbor came home with a snowblower yesterday and cleaned up all of what fell in front of our house as well as in front of his.

My car at 10:15 yesterday morning.The same at 2:00 yesterday afternoon. Note that it is impossible to see under the car.Before I shoveled out the new ski instructor's car yesterday afternoon around 2:00. There was no snow piled next to the car when she parked. After. Notice I made her a path through the berm from the plow behind the car. Then the plow came by and made another one.

Following the plow on the way home yesterday. At least the road was clear. This plow is not the one that I was following behind my daughter's car, but it looks just the same. We also followed a pair of deer down the road for about a half mile before they decided to jump back over the bank. They were in front of the lead car, so no pictures, but it was funny.Why we want to come home after skiing.

Two children who want to play with each other now.
Twilight time.

What I meant to say was . . .

Twas the night before Christmas and everyone was blogging. This video would not upload, so it comes to you in time for the post Christmas shopping rush. I have only received four email messages from folks in a hurry for me to go out in the snow and spend money today. Well, two of them wanted me to shop online, but the idea is the same. I do not remember being bombarded with ads in the email last year.

I started my Christmas Eve on skis with my son. We took the trail through the forest, and it was not until we reached the city streets on the other side that he remembered the hill we needed to climb on the way home. It is not the steepness that is an issue, as much as the traffic. We managed to ski home safely.In the evening, we attended a service at church. They have some impressive icicles.Child in picture for scale.

At home again, we found more snow falling and a dog with more white to her fur than usual.

My sister

Kangamoo is now available here.

Today is merely partly cloudy

I sense a bit of frustration on the part of the local weather folk. This is our short term forecast for today:

LITTLE SNOW ACCUMULATION...ON THE ORDER OF ONE HALF INCH OR LESS IS EXPECTED BY THE END OF THE DAY AS VERY LIGHT SNOW UNASSOCIATED WITH ANY MAJOR STORM SYSTEM FALLS OVER LOCATIONS SUCH MOSES LAKE ... SPOKANE ...COEUR D`ALENE ...PULLMAN ...TO AS FAR SOUTH AS LEWISTON. THIS SNOW HAS BEEN STUBBORN TO END AND MAY LINGER AROUND FOR A GOOD PORTION OF TODAY BEFORE ENDING SOMETIME TONIGHT.

Yesterday, they kept suggesting that the snow would stop at a particular hour. 8 inches later, it stopped falling sometime in the afternoon. Today we are having "chance flurries" I am still looking for the spinning candy parts amid the ice cream out there. I am sure the writer's English teacher would show great trauma over the personification of the snow. What is wrong with snow that refuses to associate with a storm system? This is individualistic snow.

Whatever the weather, one must keep an eye on the squirrels. The steam is the exhaust from our furnace, which is doing a fine job of keeping us warm.

This is what fell this morning.

It is difficult for the camera to focus on something that light, so here is the sleeve of my jacket.

More on the mailbox.

I skied around the neighborhood again this morning with Shadow. She loves to get out, and I am enjoying sliding around on purpose, instead of by accident.