Okay, first I’m going to apologize to all the 10,000 Step Clubbers out there – I did not get in 10,000 steps yesterday.  I doubt if I got in 100, even.  Seriously, I’ve got to stop planning these wonderfully busy weekends because WHAM!!!  I get smacked with a nasty head cold and spend the entire day in bed.

Today, I feel much better and am already half-way to my 10,000 steps.  A couple more 30-minutes walks on the walking machine and I’ll be there.  The legs are still a little too shaky to get in a full 45 minutes, but I’ll be there again tomorrow.

The snow we got Friday afternoon and evening combined with the shrieking wind Friday night and most of yesterday have left some very interesting drifts in our yard.  Some of these things are over 3 feet deep, but in other places there is practically bare ground.

Check out these funky drifts out by the cars that we left at the end of the driveway.  I know sculpters who would be seriously jealous of these beauties.

At least it was easy to walk around the cars to get them scraped off and ready to go to town.  But don’t you just love the graceful smoothness of them and the way the morning sun creates those highlights and shadows.  I’m such a huge fan of God as an artist!  Lovely!

See what I mean by nearly bare ground next to drifts?  In front of our house is this doughnut-shaped driftage with the house sitting in the hole.

And this is the back of the house.  See that 3+ foot drift in front of the barn?  That’s where our driveway is and the reason we park by the road when we know these storms are coming through.

Sorry for the odd angle of the picture – don’t know why I took it that way, but I did.  See the shiny road?  That, my friends, is ICE!!!  Scott pulled out of the drive in the Honda this morning and did a doughnut right in the middle of the road – funniest thing I’ve seen in a while.  He decided to go to the art center today and I’m here at home getting ready to finish getting the SWIFT newsletter ready for the printer.

As cold as it it outside (it was about 8 degrees when these pictures were taken) there is no wind and the sun feels lovely against your face.  Really, if I didn’t still have a cold, I’d but out in it playing.  But I thought you would enjoy them.  Did anyone else get snow this weekend?  How much did you get?