Snowed Out

Woke up to some serious snow fall today.  It pretty much snowed all day.  Seems to have stopped around 5 PM or so.  I was at the doctors office with Andy when it stopped so sometime between 4:25 and 5:20.  Anyway, it came and it came and it came and it is wonderful.  We live in the desert and we are constantly under drought warnings so snow is a precious commodity in the winter time.  We love it and we hate it but really we need it so we live in a state of understanding that it is so very important.  Whatever discomfort exists because of the snow we can endure.  What a day it has been though. My body feels spent from much shoveling.  I was doing my best to keep the front entrance at the Brick House cleared for clients.  Seemed that as soon as I finished clearing it I would look back over my work to find that I needed to begin again.  The old losing battle.  When Andy and I drove by after the doctors visit I thought I would stop and clear it again but found that it was mostly clear and since the snow had stopped falling we were good.  Seemed my shoveling was over. 

When we arrived home I was walking into the house through the garage and noticed one of my snow shovels in the back yard and some sort of snow splatter against the back wall.  I didn't want to leave the shovel in the yard so went to retrieve it.  Then I had the crazy idea to build a snow fort so I began throwing snow.  We have a couple of large tire tractor tires in the yard that serve kind of like soccer goals on opposite sides of the yard.  I saw that tire there and thought it would serve as the perfect door for an igloo so I started throwing snow to build up walls.  I threw a lot of snow and there was more than one occasion when I questioned my sanity.  I received a text from Natty asking if I was bringing home food.  I told her where I was and she came and joined in the fun.  I used cots to cover the opening in the top for a roof and then we loaded more snow on top of them.  So much shoveling.  What was I thinking?  The boys were excited to see it but they have not yet been out to it as we had to have dinner.  Anyhow, I think they are excited to check it out tomorrow.  In the meantime I'm spent and ready to pass out.