From 0 to 14.5 inches Overnight

Yesterday was rainy and the snow was gone...it looked like March, wet and dirty......but mother nature had other ideas.  14.5 inches of snow overnight...today a most beautiful Utah Snow day!

SNOW!

It's back......and everyone is complaining. We live in Northern Utah People, get real it is still January!
I love the snow, I don't enjoy driving in it or shoveling it, but that is the price we pay. I also love the hot sun in the summer, the wet green beauty of the spring and the long Indian summer days of Autumn. I live here because of the four seasons. There is only one time I don't love and that is the dirty snow season; the ugly time between winter and spring. Unfortunately this season sometimes crosses over my Birthday...but hey, what can you do.
SNOW!
Off to shovel now....great exercise!
MCC

April Showers Bring May Flowers

In April you need to think of the snow in terms of frozen rain or "Frain" as Meg calls it. It makes it seem less cold and wrong seasony.
Hay and I shoveled 6 inches of the frain off the driveway this morning, but it wasn't too bad when we looked west and saw the beautiful blue sky!
I have decided to be an optimist about the snow...the other choice is not so fun.
So for a few good things a but snow or frain in April:
- Lots of water for the plants, flowers, humans etc...after all we live in a desert.
- It covers the ugly in the yard.
- We have matinees at the theatre all week for spring break and we always pray for rain/snow to drive the customers in.
- Cleans the air.
- It looks beautiful as long as I am inside and don't have to drive in it when it is coming down.
- Allows me to put off working in the yard a little longer.

Happy Spring!
MCC

SNOW!!!

I love the snow when it is powdery and sparkling. We have had about 10 inches fall and it is still falling. The only bad part of the snow is the cold, driving in it and shoveling it up.
It looks like fine sugar, sanding or glittering in this case all that it touches with a magic.

SNOW!

It is snowing this morning!?!?!?

Fall snow is interesting, it can get wet and heavy and break the trees. last year that is exactly what happened with an October snow storm. We had several big branches come down. Hayden says that it won't happen this year because he cut back some of the tree....what won't happen this year are the branches falling on to the house...they still might come down.

Hayden taking down tree branches on the roof.

The good thing about snow this time of year is that the ground is still warm so it doesn't really stick to the roads and sidewalks.....no shoveling yet.

Gary Shoveling Last December

Winter is probably here cutting my beautiful fall short again...............oh well spring always comes again.

MCC

Monday's Mumblings

Good weekend....very relaxing and selfish...doing what I wanted to do.
Monday is here and with it SNOW! It is still winter here so I guess that it is okay.
Elder N. Call asked for some snow photos to be sent his way... he didn't say why, but it is summer in the land of the Kiwi's. Elder N. Call is on to his second Aussie companion....They don't know snow, maybe the photos are for his 'snow free' companions. This whole no snow thing got me to thinking again about snow, I love it, and I love all the varieties of weather we experience right here in good old Utah. I understand from Megan that here in Bountiful we didn't even get any snow today...now Layton and Ogden, they got some pretty heavy duty snow...school should have been canceled according to her.
I was telling Elder N. Call that our lives are pretty much the same from week to week... I don't want to become boring and get into any dull ruts...I am going to have to work on changing things up a little more.
This weekend we ate at a completely random restaurant...we were driving and spotted "The Blue Plate Diner" in SLC...Hayden remembered that it was featured on Diners Drive Ins and Dives on the Food network, so we stopped there for dinner...it was decent....their specialty is breakfast and Mexican food...the traditional "blue Plate" fare wasn't bad however. After dinner we were driving north on 15th East in SLC and spotted a few more restaurants that we will have to try out. Change, change,chhaange....
What is with the economy? What happened to just plugging along and doing your best? Living within your means wasn't in most folks vocabulary and now they are asking for a government bail out.....biggest problem with this, is that the governments money, is my money and quite frankly I am not happy with who they are presently giving hand outs to....the wealthy big wigs....I don't mind helping out those who truly are in need, but if you have a mansion and a private jet you need to sell a few of your pricey assets and join the ranks of those living in the real world. Speaking of the bail out/stimulus money....why don't I get a break for paying my mortgage, and other bills and living within my means? Why is it that only the idiots (Richie Rich and Orval Overspend) are getting government help? I will have to cast my Vote differently next election and get try to get someone elected who has a clue on how to wisely spend the peoples money.
I think my mumblings are going to start to be murmurings so I had better quit while I'm a head.
New week, new plans, new resolve....just do it & do it better than before!
MCC