It's A Deep Winter

This is one of those winters. You have the feeling it will drag on and on and you'll never quite get rested and get ahead of it all.

Over here at our place we've alternated between huge snow falls and sickness. About the time we get shoveled out, the warm temperatures come, the stuff melts, the neighbor's basements all flood, and we catch another round of the creeping crud virus. Spring will come, it always does, but some years you just look forward to it more than others.

We're awaiting yet another snow fall. Perfect timing as we've just gotten over the vomit virus in our house. They're hyping it to 10 inches. It will probably be close. Lucky us.

There was an interesting chart in the paper this morning. It was a list of the winters with the top 10 snow fall amounts. I realized that I've lived through 4 or 5 of the top 10. This year is moving right along, but no where near the top 10. We're currently just over 50 inches of snow this winter, adding another 10 inches might bring us near the top 20 or so on this list, but it's just a plain ordinary winter.

That means we're going to do what we always do. Put gas in the snow blower, make more soup, keep the place stocked with disinfectant and detergent, make sure the kids snow pants and mittens are dry each night and burn up the last of the firewood. We'll take turns shoveling and driving, scrubbing and bundling. We'll make the most of it and heartily look forward to spring.

As a complete side note, forgive my spelling errors and typo's. It seems as though spell check is not working well lately.