Snowmageddon

 What a crazy week!  

Who would think that snow would keep us from having school for a whole week!?!

The snow started on Sunday and we made sure to stock up on food Saturday, however the shelves were pretty bare.

By Sunday evening, we had what we usually could call a nice snow.  Of course school will be cancelled tomorrow.

We didn't expect to wake up to this amount.  How fun!

With all this snow, I decided to let the dogs out and not chain up Hippie.  The fool took off under the fence anyway and didn't return for a couple hours.  He smelled of campfire so he was having fun with people somewhere.

Over and over again we were warned about conserving energy by turning the heat down to 65.  We had storm blackouts and rolling blackouts throughout the state. We did loose power for a couple hours before the snow even started but that was the only time.

I don't know what Hippies plan was, but I guess if he can't run off, he decided he was just going to lay down and die.

Canyon and I decided to take a walk.  The plan was around the first block, but the wind chill was painful and we only made it down the street a couple houses and turned around to go back home.

There's our house in the back and this is nearly as far as we got before heading back.

The 1st day of snow gave us 7 inches.

School is now closed until further notice.

This was the lowest temperature I was able to screenshot. 

Liam seemed to enjoy his first snow at his house.

Unfortunately, their water pipes froze Monday and did not unfreeze until Saturday.  As far as we know, there was no damage.

After the second wave, I forgot to go measure until the next day and it measured 8 inches but I bet it was higher before it did some settling and compacting.

Canyon decided time was overdue for swinging so we got him all set up and cleared a path.  He was cold though and came back in within 5 minutes.  I think it took longer to get him ready to go out there.

Today, Saturday, I found a bird in the front yard sunning and in shock.  I moved a box under him to maybe help radiate sun warmth on him.

I went out with bread crumbs and a dish of water and the bird hopped out of the box but couldn't fly.  I went to get the gloves again and in 2 minutes another bird swooped down and beat this one up.  I caught him again and put the box on the porch but it's head was opened up and bleeding now.  It ended up dying a couple hours later.

Sunday I decided to check out the town before the ice and snow completely melted.  We have been home bound for 8 days so it was nice to get out.

The marina is still frozen.  Never saw it like this before.

Going around the marina loop and the boat ramp loop was an adventure.  Almost didn't make it. It wasn't so much the sliding which we did but the high centering.  

Old Post Park and Dardanelle Rock were pretty along with the little turtle pond.

Then we checked out my work.  No school Monday and Tuesday for virtual parent / teacher conferences but all staff have to come in.  The parking lots are fairly cleared. 

It will be in the 50's and 60's this week so it will be all gone in another 2 days when the kids come back.

It's been really weird to not see UPS, FedEx, or even the regular mail truck in the neighborhood for 9 days.  They are usually pretty plentiful.  I bet they have a lot of back up to deal with now. Things should be back to normal Monday.