Finally we got some snow that stuck. We were supposed to have a "huge" snow storm over the weekend, but it fizzled out. Then Monday morning we woke up and everything was white! Mike put a small forest of Christmas trees up in our yard, and they look so pretty with the snow under them. Chris is coming in on Sunday he has been hoping for snow. It looks like he will see some because we are supposed to get more snow this week.
Mike is on vacation and relaxing. When it snowed he was so happy. He bundled up and headed outside.
Then he fired up the lawn mower/snowplow and took off down the street. He cleared all of the sidewalks in our neighborhood. He loves to do it, it makes him happy to do nice things for the neighbors. But you know the saying, no good deed goes unpunished. He was pushing the lawn mower and got his sciatic nerve. So he has been stuck in the recliner for 2 days.
I had some older stuff I forgot about. It was around the a week after Thanksgiving and we had a visitor. I suppose he felt like it was safe to come out. (It's a turkey if you can't tell.)
Then these pictures got reversed. We had a huge wind storm a few week ago. I was up in Salt Lake shopping and missed all of the excitement. But my house got attacked by tumbleweeds during the storm. I got up the next morning and headed out to clear them away. There were so many. The picture makes it look like just a few, but there were at least 150 all different sizes. It looked like 400 to me. I just got busy moving them out of the yard, very tedious work. My very sweet and pregnant neighbor brought her little boys out and helped me clean out my yard. It is great to have kind neighbors! Of course, it had nothing to do with the fact that her house looks out over my yard, and it improved her view:-)
There were so many different kinds of tumble weeds. I contemplated making a tumble weed Christmas tree. I always used to see those in Arizona they were fun to look at. I wish I would have taken the picture from a different angle, you can't get the full impact of how many were out there. I was actually sore that night.
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4 comments:
The tumble weed tree sounds really fun. But cleaning them up doesn't. You tell that Mike that he needs to be up and running and strengthen those back muscles, darn it.
If you've seen my blog, you'll see that we got white, too, but not super much of it. It's sticking down at the arena, but how could it not with 18 degree temps?
Guy was clearing the sidewalks in the neighborhood early, early yesterday, when he slipped and struck his elbow on something. HE, however, has no recliner to claim him!!
mike is soooooo sweet! love that guy! i hope his back is better though! I love the trees in the front sooooo sooo beautiful! the turkey cracks me up though hahahahahahaha! glad you are back by the way i was wondering where you were
I love the way your house looks all lit up in the snow. And isn't Jackie so sweet to help with all of those tumbleweeds?
Gorgeous snow, and your lights look wonderful!!
Poor Mike getting hurt...what a nice guy though! I bet the neighbors were loving him!!
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