Anyone tired of snow yet?

Another winter storm hit over the weekend, beginning with rain on Saturday night, then freezing rain (making all the trees look sparkly and pretty), and finally snow and wind on Sunday morning. I think church would have been cancelled, but the bishop made the mistake of calling Kevin for advice. And you know Kevin. He just looks at adverse weather conditions as a type of challenge. We went to church one time when the wind chill was -80 degrees. And the bishop is from Canada, so this doesn't faze him either.

(This is the wind-sculpted snow in the back yard.)

After Sacrament meeting, which was actually well-attended (if you count all the people who came in 10-20 minutes late), the rest of the meetings were cancelled, and the afternoon ward cancelled their meetings.

Kevin and I came home, changed into snow-shovelling clothes, and cleaned out the driveway.

We also spent quite a bit of time cleaning out the "irrigation ditches" so the slushy water could drain off the road (it was about 5 inches deep).
The snow was VERY heavy to shovel, and often would stick to the shovel. Then you have to knock it off before going for the next shovel-full. Quite a work-out for a Sunday! But it was good that we did that, because an "arctic airmass" came roaring in from the north last night and dropped the temperature down to zero.

Guess what all those slushy tracks in the road turned into!

(We hadn't realized that putting in the fence would cause a drift there.)

School was cancelled this morning, and so Alice is at one friend's house and Elizabeth at another's. Funny. I can drive the roads just fine in getting the girls to their friends, but the school district didn't think we could make it to the school (which is closer). The roads are very bumpy!

(With all the blowing snow this morning, we had sun dogs!)

I've been using the day working on all the STUFF that is contained in Deborah's bedroom, getting it ready for the missionaries to stay. She gets to go through ALL these containers when she comes home for a few weeks this summer. I don't envy her having to make all the hard decisions of what to do with it all!