Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow...

Me at the coffee shop this morning... Tim coming into our driveway yesterday...
(Tim knows the difference between the possessive form of your and "you're" - he just forgot and didn't want to change it.) :)

This is Maddie in the Suburban on the way to Silver City for Christmas, with her "little bone".

In Silver City at Tim's Grandma's, with the 'fam.'
My little Santa is so cute!!
Holy Cow! This stuff isn't stopping! We have gotten two snowstorms, one after the other, about a week apart. This last one has dumped about three feet and it's still going. Since Tim fixed the 4 wheel-drive on our huge truck, we're able to get out. Some of the roads are plowed; (plowing in NM is TOTALLY different than in places where it snows all the time! You're on your own here! No sand or salt even in most places, and many, many roads go totally unplowed!) the Interstate has been closed and probably the other road into town is also closed. Who cares - we have our grocery store and coffee shop up here! We only made it out of our own driveway because of our high clearance and "super swamper" tires!

This morning we ventured out and lo and behold, one of our favorite coffee shops was open. There were a few other people, as well as a couple who were on their way up to the slopes (we have a nice ski area on the nearby mountain). We were highly entertained by a young man in a 4wd trying to make it home - up a steep hill with a switchback. He was so persistent! Up... and down. Up... and down. Up... and down. He stopped at the coffee shop briefly where the proprietor offered a free cuppa', just for his determination. We also suggested he weight down his bed and maybe get some kitty litter. I think he took our suggestion, because he left and awhile later - he made it up! Possibly weighted down his truck a bit?

So we're having fun. :) Maddie LOVES the snow and has to leap and bound through it at these depths. I'll play out there with her today again. Heard the snow will taper off today - then another storm system coming through Tuesday. We'll see! I'm dying for snowshoes!!