Winter Wonderland... or something!

We finally got some snow... we weren't sure we would before Christmas but we woke up one morning, and the skies were gray and there was snow on the ground. It was very beautiful... and then the cold, cold, cold weather hit. The girls left for seminary a couple mornings in a row this week and the Excursion said it was -30 degrees... yes, that's NEGATIVE 30. We shouldn't be so cold here! Sheesh... that's just wrong! But the snow is awesome and the kids are just waiting to get out and sled. In this bitter cold, they won't last long outside, but still, there is snow on the ground and that means the sleds come out!!! There can just be a skiff of snow and they are trying to sled down the hill... these kids are crazy!!! The bad thing is that we live at the bottom of a hill. It's a pain most years. It's not bad when you have 4 wheel drive, but darn it all... the newspaper man should know that he can't be messing around when it comes time to deliver our paper. Or at least we assume it was the newspaper man... the clues led us to believe that it was him. Thayne picked the girls up from the video store the night before, and he left for work at 4am and in between the time he came in the night before and before he left at 4am somebody had come close to hitting the Excursion, tried to make the turn as if possibly delivering the newspaper... but instead shot the gap and completely wiped out the garbage bin Thayne had built. Destroyed the entire wood and fencing and broke at least one garbage can... and continued going and flew off the hill. You can see the tracks, where they almost hit another vehicle, where they backed up and turned around... I can only imagine the fear that he must have felt the moment he knew he was going over! :) But then, I guess I don't have too much sympathy since they didn't bother to even leave a note... and no newspaper showed up that morning either.... the least he could have done was covered his tracks and left the newspaper!!!

Beautiful view across the road from our house....
There are lots of deer out there, you just can't see them in the bad cell phone picture!

There was a small buck standing by the trees watching to see if I was going to come any closer...

The smashed garbage bin and smashed garbage cans... what a ride this must have been!

Tracks going right off the road and down the hill... I am sure it was a bumpy ride!

Down the hill, almost hit the car at the bottom... then up the drive way the normal way!