Wintery weather

I'm not sure what it is about this time of year, but it sure seems like the days and nights are consumed with activity ... but at the end of the day you don't have anything tangible to represent how you spent your time. It just seems crazy to me. I can't really even remember what I've been up to for the past week except Christmas shopping and wrapping.

Weather wise I can say it's finally winter here! We got right around 8 inches of snow between Monday night and Tuesday mid-morning. This would have been fine, except for the wind. All of us had some dandy drifts to either shovel or use a snow thrower/blower to get out of our drives and off our sidewalks last night. Last year I couldn't start my snow thrower, but it was ok because we didn't really have much use for it last year. HOWEVER, Scott over did it yesterday morning and hurt his back, and my back almost always hurts, so we really needed to get the snow thrower started. It took a little over an hour of cursing, walking away then cursing again, trying combinations of buttons and levers until I finally got things figured out (not that I'll remember next time though) and it FINALLY started. I love that snow thrower, cuts a two hour snow removal job in half (or better if you don't have to fight the wind).