Snow? I don't see no stinkin' snow!

Our first real snowstorm out here and I am nearly giddy with glee. When I left this morning it was blowing sideways and drifting a bit which is "normal" for our area. I had a few appointments to keep in town but was just keeping my fingers crossed that I would be able to get back home ok.

Usually the Springs doesn't get hammered the way we do and things lighten up the closer you get to town. Not the case this morning. While we were in town it did let up though and the roads actually started to dry out. Of course we discovered on the way back we were to have no such luck here.

While conditions had improved they were still sucky and now there was even more drifted snow on our dirt road to contend with. Lucky for me I was able to stick to the ruts and make it most of the way home. I got stuck at the bottom of our road on the way home, the road was just too icy to get up. So, I hiked it (carefully) to the house.

We bought a new snowblower a month ago and had not tried it out yet. This was our chance! Beosig tried out the new snow thrower on the driveway that was completely drifted over with 1-2 foot drifts and cleared it in 24 minutes! After the sun had come out for a bit he drove me in the suburban down to the car to give it a go again.

Since some snow had drifted over the ice I was able to get enough traction to get up the hill and home.

After last winter and all that mother nature threw at us I can't tell you what a relief it is to finally know we have what it takes to get out should the need arise. What a wonderful feeling to know that unless it gets REALLY bad we can still escape to freedom for a short while if we have to. Yay!