39 degrees outside - 6:38 pm - raining...
It was a white Christmas weekend, and what a wonderful weekend it was! On Christmas Eve as we were heading home we saw a bald eagle swoop down to the rushing river that runs along the road and snatch a fish out landing in a nearby tree. Shortly after we arrived home another bald eagle made several low swoops in the backyard before returning to fly circles in the sky and then disappearing. The next several days were spent laughing, talking and eating with wonderful family and friends. It was a very busy weekend but a good one.
Now that the holiday weekend is over, back to work we go. We currently have several inches of snow on the ground here, and the weather is in that freezing/thawing place where it will turn to rain, then sleet, then snow, then back to rain again. The woodstove is always crackling away, but there have been a few nights when we were able let it go out overnight and rekindle it in the early morning.
Even though we have had snow on the ground since a week before Thanksgiving, we haven’t had that many days to actually play in it. It is either a mini blizzard outside, pouring down rain or so windy we are worried the kids will be blown over. The weather report for today is calling for more snow tonight and tomorrow with the snow level dropping down to 500 feet so we should get some more snow. Hopefully we will have a few nice days of weather where we can go outside and play before school starts next week.
