Spring? Really?

Our March came in like a lion so I was expecting it to go out like a lamb... this past weekend wasn't very lambish! Leading up to the weekend the St. Louis area was under a Winter Storm Watch with projected snowfalls for my area of 7 - 11 inches. I had to be down at the property on Saturday during the day and then come home Saturday night so I could take Erik to the airport on Sunday morning at 4:00 so I was sweating it a little.

I woke up on Sunday morning about 3:30 and looked out. It had been sprinkling when I got home from the country about 10:30 and it was still sprinkling. The temp was well above freezing so no snow or ice - which was a good thing. I took the boy to the airport and got back home about 4:30 - still just a sprinkle or two. It even seem to have stopped altogether by the time I got home. I went back to bed and woke up Sunday morning about 8:30 to roughly 7 inches of snow and it was till coming down - hard!

It continuted to snow all day and we got a total of about 12 1/2 inches. The plows started coming through our neighborhood about 6:00 that evening but I had already gotten Austen to shovel the driveway and had gone to the store for that combination of food that we were out of to make French toast! (Isn't it funny how everyone runs to the store for milk, bread and eggs before a storm? I had not gone before and didnt' realize until Sunday morning that we were out of all three - plus a few other things.) It continued to snow lightly all night and it's still snowing at noon on Monday but just a light dusting so far.

So I'm working from my kitchen table and have a big pot of beef stew on the stove and logs for the fire. Here are a couple of pics from Sunday:


Aubri and Tom's kitty relaxing - she was trying to play an xbox game but the cat had other ideas!


View out my front door before we shoveled or the snow plays came. You can't even see my fairy under the tree!


Austen gearing up to go shovel the snow.