☃️ Snow globe here

Upstate NY got a couple feet the day before yesterday!

We had the big fluffy flakes a few days ago here. The type that you catch on you tongue. The temperature had dropped so it remained light and fluffy. It was lovely.

Good grief! Going on 3pm and it's still snowing here and has been since late morning on Sunday. Overnight last night, we had rain and freezing rain. I can open both my front door and my side door only a few inches. It's not that the snow is unusually deep. It's that the overnight rain created a crust on the heavy, wet snow, making it difficult to move. I don't know what I'm going to do to get it cleared. I can't rely on my snow angels because they have their own mess to clear up. Good ol' "heart attack" snow is what this is.

Make sure you have the salt bags and shovels ready. Keep the best waterproof snow boots you have handy too.

I'll never forget the first time I saw snowglobe-type snow :D Ironically, it was my family's first spring in Texas. We have moved in July of 2007 from IL and the snow came in early March of 2008. Northern Texas does get snow sometimes, but it's super-rare. In the 5.5 years we lived there, it snowed roughly....three times?

So I eagerly told the family about it, mom looks out there, laughs a bit, and jokes, "Looks like we brought it with us from Illinois." It was the type of snow that didn't stick to the pavement.

Something very cute happened that day too. We had adopted a new dog named Ginger the previous year, and at age 2, (her third birthday wouldn't be for another month), she had never seen snow. She was a husky/German shepherd hybrid (I now know they're called "Shepskies"), so the cold wasn't an issue for her at all. I let her outside into our backyard. She goes over to the edge of the patio, and starts pawing at the snow, sniffing at it, tasting it. You could practically hear Ginger say, "What is this cold, white stuff?" Very cute to watch :D

She then very carefully stepped through the snow and went all the way over to our willow tree on the far side of the backyard, made yellow snow, and then I called her back in when she was done. She got excited to hear my voice and came running, slipped in the snow, and burrowed her nose slightly in the powder, getting snow on her nose! It was soooo funny to watch, lol. I wish I'd taped that.

It finally stopped snowing here! The sun tried to peek out just before sundown. I was just outside and it's going to be a miserable job to clear everything. What we've got now is the worst: a sandwich with a layer of rain/freezing rain between two 6" layers of snow. Argh! But I'm so thankful that my snow angel across the alley did my driveway.