24 INCHES

We have had the craziest winter storm; and the first day of Spring is tomorrow. Lets see...it is currently still snowing, on this Monday morning. Adding up to 24 inches. Schools have called a snow day. We are still expecting a few more inches today. Enough already. I know, I know. YES this IS GOOD for our everything up here; but we have a lot of this snow! One of our ALIVE trees snapped yesterday, and came crashing down. It was loud! Jeff and Kent were out in the little cabin, and Jeff said it sounded like two gun shots, before the tree came crashing down. He then decided it was time to get back into to the house, since we now have trees falling down; due to the weight of all this snow! Actually...these trees have seen this amount and more a couple of winters ago; but the difference is, we had received all that rain before it switched over to snow...so the rain froze on the branches, and then the snow came. Equals...really weighted down trees! I keep looking out at all of them. The branches are all very low. It can stop snowing now. It has also been below freezing for well over 24 hours. It is just plain cold out there! So the first two pictures show the tree that snapped. It is hard to see close up, because I took it from the deck. Whoa. Now the power just went out. How long I wonder...for how long...It's a good thing the computer has a battery...oh wait...it's back on ;o)