Winter Ice and snow storm

Well blogger friends, it did indeed snow Wednesday morning....and plenty!  We got somewhere between 5 and 8 inches, but by the time I had ventured outside with my measuring stick, the snow had turned to ice crystals and was flattening our fluffy white stuff.  So, I don't have an official tally for our yard.  But I can assure you, it was DEEP (for us, anyway).

Jeremy stayed home and tried to work in our basement for a couple of days while the kids and I watched the snow and then ice/freezing rain come down.  I was treated to lots of fun bird watching and even found a hummer friend waking from it's overnight hibernation on one of my feeders.  There's been plenty of snow play: sledding, walks, and we even were treated to Jeremy's snow ice cream last night (we had one more bout of fluffy snow).

A hummer on my feeder, just waking up.

Wednesday night to Thursday it was all about the ice.  Trees were heavy with the weight of it, and lots of branches fell, causing wide spread power outages.  We were lucky, and kept our power on, but there were plenty of flickering moments.  Aunt Diede and her friend Neil came over Thursday afternoon to warm up a little.  We spent a few hours playing board games and hanging out. 

Darla was loving the new icy hill!

 Ice storm!

This morning, the warm air made it's return, and the whole region is rejoicing! Derick has missed a whole week of school, and Darla missed her first week of dance classes at RCC. I've been doing pretty good, here at home, but finally ventured out this afternoon, to restock the larders from Costco.

***Update, Jeremy has (hopefully) fixed my computer.  Either way, I was able to see my photos and upload them!  Yay!***Sadly, my day ended yesterday on a sour note. Right after I had transferred my ice photos off my camera, my computer blue screened. My heart broke, knowing that I may have just lost alot of photos that I haven't backed up.....sigh. Jeremy took the CPU apart and he thinks it's the power supply. I just hope that it's going to recover. So, sorry there are no photos to go along with my post. I hope someday in the near future, I will be able to add them.