This picture was taken Dec 21 after we received 24 inches of snow. Our back yard drifted a little so the snow was even deeper there. I dug a tunnel out to the backyard so Kozmo and Zoey could go to the bathroom. They managed to jump forward step by step because the snow was deeper than their legs. Our driveway and front steps had a huge 3.5 ft drift which I had to shovel by hand since we don't even own a snow blower. Usually in CO, the snow melts away by the second or third day so snow blowers are a little overkill. This year it would have been nice to have one.
We were supposed to fly to Minnesota at 4pm on Wednesday the 20th but the airport was already closed by the time we woke up. We tried calling Frontier all day but couldn't even get through because the circuits were busy. Finally at 5 we got on hold for an hour and reached someone. She said the first flight out was Monday, Christmas Day at 4pm so we took it. Unfortunately we missed the Thomas Christmas that Saturday and most of Brian and Katie's time. We drove down to Iowa Christmas night and had a nice Christmas dinner of gas station foot in the parking lot of a Kwik Trip somewhere south of Minneapolis. We made it to Independence at 12:15am so it was a long day. We had a nice Christmas on the 26th and took Brian and Katie back to the airport on Wednesday the 27th so they could fly back to Alaska. Thursday we drove to Saint James and found out that Colorado was getting yet another blizzard and another foot of snow. Luckily the weather in the midwest was so warm it was just raining ... that is until New Year's eve when we flew out. It changed over to snow that morning and we drove to Minneapolis in a Winter Storm warning blizzard in our Toyota Corolla rental car. Amazingly our plane took off an hour late at 8:45pm and we made it back to our house just before midnight to ring in the new year.
This week we again got about 8 inches of snow Friday, Jan 5th so that's 3 weeks straight with major snow storms. In fact as I write this there has been a major avalanche near Berthoud Pass on the way to Winter Park where I have my ski passes. I was actually thinking about going today because of the great snow but decided to stay home. They've already rescued some people and I just hope no one was killed. The closure of the road is going to add 100 miles and countless hours to trip home for anyone skiing there today.
Ok, this was my longest entry yet so I'll sign off.
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As I was reading about your Christmas dinner at Kwik Trip, I was wondering to myself - "How exactly does gas station foot taste?"
--Love, your brother
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