SNOW!

Living in the Great Northwest, we typically get around 2 days of decent snow a year. Perhaps one in December, and one in February. It will snow 4-6 inches overnight, and melt the next day. Therefore, when we have an unusual winter, it is worth mentioning. This winter was extremely unusual. It started snowing the evening of December 16th. I didn't go to work, because we live on a hill and there was expectations to get more throughout the day of the 17th.

I ended up not going to work the rest of the week or the week after due to the snow. It was so cold during the day that it didn't melt, and it just kept snowing more. I think at one point we had about a foot outside.

For some reason, I found the snow very inconvenient after a while. We seemed to drive a lot during the holidays, to Maple Valley, Olympia, Issaquah, and North Bend. All of which seemed to get more snow that we did. So we had more nights of driving through thick snow, and requiring chains at times.

Once we got to the places we were traveling to, it was great. I love to snow and think it is beautiful, it just scares me to drive in it. Below are some pictures of the sites. The snow stuck around for a couple weeks, and was still in North Bend in January.

This is my backyard on December 19th. We back up to a green belt and the snow is so pretty on the trees.

This is the Mandee & Nathan's hot tub outside their house. I think they had about 2-3 feet on Christmas Day
This picture looks like something you would see on a postcard or wintery desktop on a computer, this is the view from Mandee & Nathans living room in North Bend. It was so breathtaking that I had to take a picture.This was my first white Christmas with Dusty.