My two sons-in-law, Hilton and Adam, offered to clear our driveway from the 9 inches of snow we got over the last few days. The snow was so heavy that Adam had to ride on the front of the 4 wheeler to provide enough weight to press the blade down into the snow. They spent a good couple of hours outside doing all that manly stuff! Thanks to both of them, our driveway is much safer now.

Our electricity went out at 2 am. Thankfully we have a gas generator so we are fine. There was a big pine tree down across our road and power lines, so Bill couldn't get to work, until a neighbor chopped a passage through for the cars. It is pouring rain which is supposed to turn into sleet and then snow, so the roads will be frozen ice rinks. I am most worried about the amount of ice on the trees and hoping none of them falls on our house. Don't you just love winter?!

It is very cool to walk on a crust of ice on top of the snow. Not so much fun to drive on it, though.

We got a lot of snow here with some freezing rain on top of it. Bill walked out to the mailbox and was enjoying the crunch of snow under his feet on the way back.

I've been thinking about this shot for months. Finally got a chance to try it.

Just Kidding!

Eliza's finally got enough hair (just barely) to do two little ponytails. I think she is gonna be a girly-girl! And there's nothing wrong with that.

We celebrated Communion today. I realized when I posted this picture that in the background is the stained glass window depicting the nativity. I tried to get a photo of this window to post as my PaD for December 24th, but by the time I got my camera out on that night, the lights were turned out and no one could figure out how to get them back on! However, I learned in church this morning that it is technically still Christmastide.

One of the artists on my Favorite's page is Connor Roelke. His last photo of 2008 was a mosaic of all of his PaD photos:

Connor's mosaic.




I liked it so much I decided to try it for myself. This is pretty darn cool.