Snowpocalypse

Some of the snow on the deck is old snow.  Thank god that all did not fall last night. 

I KNOW I keep saying I'm going to post pictures of the inside of the house, but this snow is just too ridiculous to not write about.  I cannot believe this storm! This morning we woke up to about 10 new inches on the ground.  Of course Ripley wouldn't let us not take him out, so we did the usual walk to the high school.  Andy made the brilliant statement about halfway there as we were slogging through shin-deep snow "Hey, we should have worn our snowshoes!"  Yes, we both have law degrees.  Good thinking, Naylors.  Well at least we got our workout in.

When we got back from running around in the snow, we hit the driveway with our snow shovels.  Ripley decided to oversee with his frisbee in tow.

He's really good at entertaining himself.

By the time we finished (we shoveled the whole LONG driveway in less than two hours thankyouverymuch), we were exhausted.  Also, I am probably going to catch pneumonia because I spent the last hour shoveling in a t-shirt.  Ripley's bad decisionmaking is rubbing off on me.

Ripley decided to take a nap with his bones.

We thought it might be fun to let the cats explore winter.

Fro is the stupid brave one.

She darted for the stairs and Andy had to retrieve her.  She wanted to go back out immediately.  I told you she was stupid.

Throughout the day we've had what the weatherman is calling "periods of heavy snow"

Because we were concerned about the weight, we shoveled the deck when we shoveled the driveway.  By 5pm we decided we needed to shovel again.  This time, our neighbor friends were outside.  Ripley, Bandit and their human friend and six year old ball of energy, Tyler, ran around in circles, chased the frisbee, and sledded down our driveway while we shoveled.  Tyler even helped us shovel the walkway!  His mom was thrilled that he only wanted to help us and not her.  Aren't kids hilarious?

We came back inside and measured the snow on the deck.  In five hours we got five more inches.  Isn't that just wonderful?  As I write this at almost 7pm, it continues to dump and I think we've got about 18 inches of new snow on the ground from Sunday morning until now.

In other news, my "friends" are a-holes (from my Facebook page):