open water

Look at that beautiful, rippling water! Today is the first day that there is no ice on our lake. Happy May Day!

one more weather post

Scott found this picture on StarTribune.com. It's the Bonanza restaurant in town. I don't think they had many customers yesterday. :) The good news is that we are going to have a heat wave here next week.....in the 50's and 60's! And this snow is all going to be gone.

Photo credit: By Steve Kohls, Associated Press

snowed in

The carpet couldn't be installed in the basement today because this is the view from our front porch -

We got the snow that was predicted. Around a foot of it. (Why do we live here again?) Schools were cancelled (except for ours!) and the carpet delivery vans were snowed in. It's rescheduled for Monday morning.

our weather forcast

Tonight
Windy...snow. Blowing snow. Snow accumulation of 8 to 9 inches. Lows 25 to 30. Northeast wind 20 to 30 mph.

Friday
Breezy...snow. Blowing snow. Snow accumulation of 3 to 4 inches. Highs 32 to 37. Northeast wind 20 to 25 mph.

It is April right?

i spoke too soon

We were just being teased with a couple of days of springlike weather last week. It snowed all day yesterday and last night. At least we only got a few inches, those north of us got 2 FEET!

the forcast for today is...

SNOW! 5-9 inches total accumulation by tonight. Is it really April 3rd??

Update:
We just got done watching the news and the official snowfall for our area is 7.5 inches today. It's going to stay around for awhile too as we are not going to have temps above freezing until Easter Sunday when we will get up to almost 40 degrees. It will be an easter egg hunt in the snow this year I guess. :(

the view outside

This is the view outside that we've been enjoying all morning. We are getting more snow....supposedly another foot or so of it! The kids played outside for about an hour in it this morning before we started school and are planning to go back out when we are done. We have not been able to see across the lake for most of the morning so it is coming down at a pretty good rate.