In With a Bang!

Winter is officially here and it has come in with a bang! The snow started in lightly this morning, but by the time we left church this morning, the snow was accumulating quite a bit. Taigen announced this morning that we were going to cancel the evening service. Travel home was slow.

All the weather stations had put out a severe storm watch starting at 6 pm tonight. That's hilarious because we've already gotten about 5-6 inches already. The worst part is still to come. We could get up to 14 inches of snow!

I've been enjoying it all afternoon from the comforts of my heated home. To my surprise the birds have been at the feeder all day! They are all fluffed up and cute. We've seen a woodpecker, the tufted titmice, chickadees and juncos.

Our deck is covered again. You'd never know I shoveled it yesterday. I found it funny that the snow is so wet and sticky that it is clinging to the decorative, spinning "thingy" Dad and Cathy gave us to hang up in our yard (what would you call this?).

The Christmas program is tentatively rescheduled for next Sunday evening depending on who all is still in town that is in the program and what the weather is like. There is another (smaller) storm scheduled for Christmas eve! I'm hoping to be able to do it this year, but in the meantime, I get in an extra week's worth of practice. Whew!