Winter's arrived 10-17-06

Our first major snowstorm hasn't been so bad. It started out as rain almost all night last night. But as the sun rose, the rain turned to snow. It's been snowing all day and since the temp hanging right at freezing all day, we have the heavy wet stuff.

So since I couldn't ride my bike, I decided to burn some calories shoveling some snow in the back yard. Didn't really need to back there, but the dogs love to be outside with me and they really get pretty frisky.

The plastic pink flamingo is my neighbors - she loves them and has them sprinkled all through her flower gardens. They weather man says tomorrow we may lose most of the snow as the sun will return with temps in the 40's, but snow will be back this weekend. We sure can use all the moisture so I can't complain. And thankfully there has been no ice.