Snow Day?

Of course not! We never have snow days here.

I was going to take my new snow shoes out this afternoon, but I'm not driving up to the foothills in this mess. I will at least have to try them out in my yard. And no, I don't think that I can take a picture of myself snowshoeing.

We've had about nine inches of snow today and it has finally tapered off. Single guy hasn't been home since it snowed last Wednesday. My theory is that he has chosen to go to a motel rather than shovel his driveway. I made it all the way into my driveway, but as you can see I didn't make it to the garage.

This doesn't give you the best perspective, but this pile of snow is about 4 and a half feet tall. I say kill the groundhog!

I Have Snowshoes!

I have been keeping an eye on the classifieds for cheap snowshoes for about a year now with no luck. I was really only mildly interested in getting them until I got Shady and realized that it would be great to be able to take her up into the mountains in the snow. I was babysitting Ava today since her daycare was closed for the holiday, and we spent the whole day looking for snowshoes. We went up to Smith and Edwards, then we hit several sporting good stores in Ogden. I was hoping to find something on sale since we are nearing the end of winter (I hope), but no luck. When I was looking on Amazon this weekend I found some sort of chain webbing that you can put over your regular shoes that act like cleats on the ice, but I didn't see anything like that in the stores either. When I dropped Ava off I asked Steph if she knew where I could get something like that, since Brandon had been into the winter sports, and she said that she had a set of snowshoes that he'd given her sitting in her garage that I was welcome to have. Needless to say I am thrilled with free snowshoes. It was too late for me to try them out today, so hopefully I will be able to take them out tomorrow and then we'll see if I'm still excited about them once I've tried them.