My last post was way back in December. So this is kind of an end of last year recap and new year post. Winter In our area it started off like it would quite a "Doozie" of a Winter. Normally the real snow doesn't fall until right around or after Christmas, not this year! We got substantial snowfall well before the Holiday. Many locals were comparing the amount to the "Winter of 1996" which was the last of the 'snow drifts and blizzards' Winters that many remember that lived here at the time. In our area the major Winter Resort is a place called Schweitzer Mountain about 35 miles South, with primarily skiing, snowboarding and such Winter activities. Measurements taken in mid December had the snow pack of 168 inches (14 feet!) which was said to be 120% of 'normal' for that time of the year. Well, it stayed like that, wintry and snowy, until about second week of January then it didn't snow for weeks. Then any snow was light accumulations ...
This Blog was started because it's so often just too difficult for us to stay in contact with everybody we want to! Almost everyone we know lives in different timezones, different areas, and has their different lives. Now everybody can come to one place to see what we're doing!