Winter Wonderland

On the afternoon of Thursday, Jan. 17th we got a nice snow shower on Sand Mountain! As per usual, with the smallest accumulation of snow in our neck of the woods, the world shuts down... and there is no milk or bread available in stores for 50 miles!  Before you start thinking "crazy southerners," please remember that we don't have the equipment to salt or scrape roads that our northern counterparts do! And because it's pretty rare-- we REALLY don't know how to drive in the mess! While travel problems were not expected, we did have quite a mess on the roads that night and next morning.  We had a corporate kickoff that had to be canceled that night, so we got to enjoy a snow day!

  It was a beautiful snow, and the dogs seemed to enjoy it.  Even our foster dog (sweet Buddy the bulldog- pictured below- that stuck around for a week or so) got to enjoy from the warmth of our dog house!

Here you can see the house before it was painted to catch a glimpse of the progress.  I thought it would NEVER be warm enough or dry enough to finally get the siding painted, but it did a few weeks later!

The next morning was our 4D ultrasound, so we got to drive on messy, icy roads all the way to Birmingham!  It was a LITTLE crazy, but we made it safely, and most of the snow was gone by mid morning. No power outages, no major traffic issues, short-lived-- just pretty snow, and a little down time.... the kind of snow I like best!  Thanks, God!