Snow, Snow, and More Snow!

Snow, Snow, and More Snow!


During this period while we are not traveling, I will be writing a few miscellaneous blogs. You probably noticed that I uploaded my travelogue from my 2006 China trip. I did that partly as a response to a blog that my daughter Judy writes. We are very proud of the job she does with that blog, and you may want to take a look (here).

A couple of days ago I wrote about the fun times we had in our VW bus. I had hoped to post of picture of our bus, but they seem to be buried somewhere.

Today I am going to post about our big October snowstorm. We have snow storms most months of the year somewhere in Colorado. In the Denver area it is not unusual to get snow in October. What is unusual is to get over 40 inches!! That is the number recorded in the Evergreen/Conifer area where we live. The photo to the right is our deck. Parts of Denver got over two feet! Unfortunately, it was an upslope storm and the Denver Airport (located quite a ways east of Denver) only got 7 inches and that becomes the “official” snowfall recorded.

We had left Monday to spend a couple of days with one of our daughters and her family. The live about 30 miles from us, but we decided that staying with them would give us extra time with the granddaughters (Madison 6 and Molly 4). We were scheduled to be “parent helpers” in both of the girl's classes. On Tuesday we went to Madison's piano class before she went to school In the afternoon we went to her class and had a great time.

That night it started to snow. By the time we got up Wednesday, it had snowed about a foot and most schools were closed. Molly was devastated that her class had been canceled and Grandma/PaPa would not be helpers that day. However, Madison and Molly got to build the snowman as shown in the photo. That was the first day of the snow -- it snowed another foot after the photo was taken.

It continued to snow very hard Wednesday and we decided to stay another day so that the roads to our house would be better. Thursday it was still snowing, but we decided we would try to make it home. We live at 7500 feet and it is a pretty steep climb up from Denver. We had our two wheel drive PT Cruiser, but it does not do too bad since it is front wheel drive. We made it all the way home and buried the poor little car in the entrance to our driveway (see photo).

Last week I had thought about replacing the mower on the tractor with the scraper blade (not a fun/easy task). Well, you guessed it – that did not get done. So, yesterday I “plowed “the driveway with the mower. Actually it did OK. It got the snow down to just a few inches and I was able to move the car up to the front of the garage.



The photo to the right is our '56 Chevy buried under the snow.

That is all for now.