Still Winter

Overnight Mother Nature blessed us with fourteen inches of fresh snow. It is enough to close us down, another blessing. I don't have to worry about my adult children driving to work or the poor school bus drivers trying to pick up grandchildren out of snowbanks.  My teacher daughters have an extra day to catch up on the in-person, virtual, zooming and whatever else they are trying to cram in. 

My dear sweet husband not only was out by 7 a.m. to start up the snow blower for our driveway and walk, he also worked on the elderly neighbor behind us, helped another neighbor do his driveway so he could get to his correction officer position, and cleared my favorite neighbor's drive and sidewalk and took her trash to the curb. I sent him one street over to a church friend whose husband was moved from a nursing home to the ER last night and is being transferred to a larger hospital today. She can't visit him at any of the facilities, but he did clear what he could in her stone drive and plowed a path to the trash so he could take it to the curb and her puppy could get out the backdoor. He is now spent for the day. Even a snow blower is hard to push that heavy snow. 

My prayers are with all the friends and families in the southern states who are not prepared for this winter storm. And also with all the necessary workers taking care of what needs to be done. I hope that Mother Nature takes a kinder action for the rest of winter! 

We were supposed to get a big storm again tomorrow night, but now I am hearing only three inches. I hope that guesstimate is true!