My Great Snow Day Dig-Out

Toby had school canceled today--technincally it was canceled last night before a single snowflake even fell.  Not sure if they're going to cancel school tomorrow too.
We dug out this morning. At least far enough to connect a path from our steps to our neighbors' front door. 
Our neighbor walked home from work this morning, instead of having his wife drive to pick him up. It was actually faster for him to walk 6 miles than it was for her to shovel the driveway and drive to pick him up (and she had already been shoveling the drive for an hour before he called to say he was walking).  Getting from my door to theirs was a small victory--the celebration was only slightly more mild than that for the transcontinental railroad connection in 1869, I'm sure.  :o)

These pictures don't do any justice to the weight of the snow. It was like slicing cheesecake or something really thick and heavy. Maybe pudding? I think I'm just hungry....

We'll spend a few hours this afternoon (maybe) trying to dig out one of the cars.  I just grabbed the camera a few minutes ago to take these shots because I loved how the clouds looked.  The sun is just beginning to peek out but the sky still looks murderous.  Norah is napping now and Toby is curled up watching a Lego movie, in order to take a break from Lego-building.  (We're a completely commercialized family here.)  Yesterday we went to two different libraries and the grocery store, so we are stocked in the food and entertainment departments for several days, at least.

The last shot I took the other day after a more mild snow day--only a few inches that time, but the snow stuck to the trees and we had a pretty line-up of icicles on the roof.