The Big Snow!!

I'm not sure how many inches we got here in Virginia... I think somewhere around 16-20. The bummer was that Saturday night (which was in the middle of the snowstorm) we had tickets to see Handel's Messiah at the Kennedy Center in DC! I had called on Friday to see if it was cancelled, and they said nope, it was still on. And the tickets were non-refundable. SO....... we tried our best to get out. Around noon, Jeff got my RAV4 to the end of the driveway, where it promptly got stuck... There was simply no getting out. And with Jeff's recent surgery, he wasn't in the position to do much shoveling. Phil had been snowed in at a friend's house, so we were on our own. I wanted to go out and shovel the car out, but my back had been hurting over the past few weeks, so we knew that wasn't very smart.... But in the end, the Kennedy Center did decide to cancel the show after all, and we were refunded. But I was kind of disappointed! One, because we really wanted to see the show, and Kiff was going to go with us (she was really disappointed too). And two, because I was gearing up for an adventure. :( But I know it would have been dangerous had we persevered in venturing out. They were saying there were accidents all over the place...

Anyway, it sure was pretty. Especially when viewed from the warm indoors. :)



Phil was home by Sunday morning, and he did a ton of shoveling. So nice to have a strong young man around. :) Jeff did a little as well. And he paid for it! He isn't supposed to be shoveling snow this early after his surgery.

And do you believe, the snow is almost completely gone now?? It's been above freezing, and then we had a couple days of rain, so almost all the snow got washed away. We hear more might be coming, though........ We'll see!