Spring is Getting Closer

Spring is getting closer. We have gone about 10 days with degrees in the 20's and 30. Snow is beginning to go down slowly. There are going to be a lot of ice piles that will take awhile to get rid of. The slower it melts, the less flooding there will be. We don't have to worry about it where we live but lots of others do. So we do hope it will melt slowly and not snow anymore.

Holidays

Well New Years is past, Martin Luther King Day is gone, Valentines Day is past and Presidents Day was yesterday. I think it will be awhile before we see another Holiday. Good Friday and Easter are the next ones I think. No, we Irish have St. Patrick's Day next month. The kids next door have had all kinds of snow holidays from school this year and late starts too. They are having a ball on the huge snowbanks by our houses.

As High as An Elephant's Eye

The snow is as high as an elephant's eye around here. I saw a city truck backing into the cornfield across the road to dump a load of snow this morning. They have a big lot for the elevator where they haul all the snow from town during the winter and the piles are higher than the houses across the street. They have a system of scraping all the snow from the sides of main street into the middle. You have to drive down both sides of it as they haul it away in big trucks. We got so much freezing rain that it helped pack the snow down and they couldn't scrape it off so now we have ruts and everything is very slippery. You better stay in the ruts or you are likely to run into the other person in the lane next to you. The kids next door have a huge pile the landlord pushed up there and they are sliding down it on plastic saucers and just having a ball. This has been one winter when they have had snow days, the first in several years. We have been having mild winters but this one has been a doozy. March came in like a roaring lion with rain,freezing rain, and about 14 inches of snow!! We were in the house for 3 days watching it blow past the windows. It's only 15 more days till Spring but we're betting on more winter after March 21st anyway.