At least we got the septic system fixed before the snow started. Although the weather was unseasonably warm and dry while they were working on it, I was worried because this is November after all, and the snow could start at any time. Indeed, the snow did start November 11, the day after the septic work was completed. At first it was melting as fast as it fell, but there were a couple of days when we woke up to a solid inch on the ground, all of which was gone by noon. Thursday evening it started snowing for real, and we had a foot or so on the ground by Friday morning.
Friday is grocery shopping day in our house, but I have been known to bump it to Saturday if that happens to be convenient. This time, however, we were a little low on milk and I wasn't sure that it would last till Saturday. When I left for Walmart, the sun was shining and the snow was melting, so I figured plowing the driveway could wait till Saturday. When I came out of Walmart, it was snowing and blowing, the visibility was bad, and the tire tracks I had made in the driveway on my way out were almost obliterated. I stopped to pick up the mail on my way in, but there was no mail in the box, and the two letters we had put in it were still there. There was no mail Saturday either, probably because the county had not plowed our little dead-end road yet.
I didn't get the driveway finished on Saturday, but I did make a pretty good dent in it before the snowing and blowing started again. Turned out that we only got an inch or two additional overnight, and I was able to finish the driveway today. I expect the county will come by and plow me back in tomorrow, so I will have to do that part again before I put the garbage cans out for Tuesday's pickup. Both the mail person and the garbage people have to turn around in our driveway because we are the last house on the road, so I try to keep it open for them. My neighbor has a plow on his truck, and he often plows all the way to the corner before the county comes and plows our driveways back in again. He usually opens the end of our driveway in the process, but this time he must have been too busy doing his own.
I haven't heard the official numbers, but it looks like we got about 18-24 inches total. The reason I haven't heard the official numbers is because our TV satellite feed is currently not picking up our local channels. A guy is scheduled to come fix that next Friday the 25th. At least we still get the Weather Channel, and they are not predicting snow for the next seven days.
I couldn't get Old Dog's time lapse pictures to work, but Uncle Ken posted the morning one on Face Book, and I was able to access it there. Ever cool! He promised to post the evening one later, and I'm looking forward to seeing that.
How was y'alls weekend?
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