Typically, our cul-de-sac is not a neighborhood gathering spot until spring, when everyone begins coming out of the woodwork again. “Hey!” we yell to one another from across the way, showing that we are real, that the houses we’ve driven near and by all winter, as well as our own, really did contain people within them. But today, post-Christmas, the holed-up were looking to clear a path to the main road so that everyday life might begin again, someday soon. And so those signs of life in the neighborhood happened here and now, in the middle of a North Dakota blizzard, when hubby and a few neighbors stopped for a digging break to make it known that life does continue to happen, even here in the frozen hinterland on a record-setting-snowfall day.
How much did you get? It keeps falling and falling and falling. I still reign as Snow Queen of Jordan Road!
Mary, 22 inches, and as Troy says, “All of it in our driveway.” He has shoveled about four times in the last 12 hours alone. But yes, you can retain your title, Snow Queen. You rock with the shovel!
22 inches?! Holy-moly, that’s a lot of snow. No wonder we haven’t had much of a white Christmas here – North Dakota got all of the snow! It does look pretty, though. 🙂
Those mounds of snow look tortureous and beautiful all in the same breath!
Merry White Christmas to you in Nort Dakota there, yah..you betcha!