Delicate	Buoy Bell	Driveway
Trees	All Clear	From The Bottom

Here's a few shots from the snowy morning.

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Icy Windshield

Crazy Tree Full of Birds

Arrived at work, where the parking lot was a skating rink:

Parking in the garage, please

Spent the day on useful stuff: *Insert REDACTED corporate events here*

I was rewarded with the gorgeous moon at dusk when I left work and now some twitter twiddling and blog-posting.

Gripping, eh?

The day was unimpressive, snowing at dawn, but I fully expected the road to be passable. It was, half the way down, until the sharpest switchback, where two neighbors had lightly collided on the ice.

By then, the road was packed hard, dreadfully slick, and the traffic was starting to build up. After some neighborly chats, I punted and went back home, too lazy to put the chains on the car. But it looks pretty tough in the snow:

The Sube parked in the neighbor's drive to let traffic pass

This guy spun the truck a full-360, twice, before giving up and heading home

And the joy of the day was my girls, playing together in the snow, sharing the sled and mostly getting along. They had the day off from school for a teacher work-day, so we're not getting charged for a snow day today, but the email just came with news of the Wednesday closing.

Zooooooommmmm

Thankfully, they tend to run out of momentum before reaching the woodpile.

Winter on the mountain is a pain sometimes, but gathering the red-cheeked kiddos around the fire and later for some hot-chocolate was pretty homey. For me, I worked on the laptop at the kitchen table, tending the fire and such, while watching the snow fall at the big windows. Tomorrow, another day of working from home for me.

We finally have some real snow here in NoVa, about 6.5" of it here on the mountain. We had to drag the girls in from it, since it was dark and raining, but they didn't come willingly.

We're now getting an icy treat tonight, with rain misting down on top of this. Imagine my joy.

Share my prayers for school closures on Friday, won't you? Daddy needs a four-day weekend.

Instead, you can see them over at bma's blog, thunderkeys.

We're up to about 6" now and it's still coming down. Considerably more than the "one inch, with some freezing rain" predicted yesterday. I'll take almost any amount of snow though, over ice.

Ok, this is the last snow picture for February, I promise.

It's good to be average sometimes, at least in temperature. The weather has moderated, we had nearly 50F today which is slightly above our average and major melting is underway. I'm guessing the glacier in the cold and constant shadow of the house will last until March 10th though.

The kids enjoyed their previously ill-fated Valentine's Day celebrations today at school and we're restocked now with the raw materials for tooth decay. Yip.