'S' Is For Snow

A typical heavy snowfall over night.

Here in our part of Kansas we don't get very much snow.

I think the most I've ever seen in one large snowfall here is

about 12 inches...at the most.

As many of you who follow me know...I moved here from a ski village in the mountains of British Columbia and each winter we got somewhere between 40-60 feet of snow.

During an El Nino winter we sometimes got a bit less snow and more rain but it was always a white winter.

Me shoveling the roof the first time that winter

The picture above and the two below show a particularly 

bad winter where we had to shovel our roof off 3 times.

See that large window? At the end of the snow season as I was laying on the living room floor (split level home with another large window under that one) my children

walked past the upper window on snow that was higher than the bottom of the windowsill. 

My two oldest boys made shoveling the roof

fun. They'd make chairs and TV's out of snow

and do flips off the roof or slide off. 

See that lower roof level in the above picture...that all had to be shoveled off before the upper roof was shoveled onto it. Then it all had to be shoveled off again.

The picture above shows our old deck that was 14X28. 

What you see is the snow from only 1/4 of the roof
that had been shoved off onto the deck. Before we could do that

the deck itself had to be shoveled off to make sure there

wasn't too much weight on it. 

THEN all the snow you see there had to be hand shoveled off

and paths had to be shoveled to the garage and wood shed.

We had a 10hp snow blower for the driveway and sidewalks.

The picture above was taken in 1975.

That shed looks short but it's not and 

the door handle is at regular door handle height. 

Yes that's me pulling my oldest son...wow 

I was skinny...probably from all that shoveling ;)

This picture above is my two youngest

taken years ago sitting on the snow bank

at their grandparents in MARCH!

This was another bad winter with lots of snow.

Last but not least is an old picture of my oldest 

daughter standing on the deck showing how much

snow we had gotten over the weekend. 

The snow had already packed down by this time!

It was truly a WINTER WONDERLAND until the middle

of February...by then 'cabin fever' was beginning to 

set in and we were all ready for the snow to quit.

Something that is pretty amazing is that school was 

seldom closed because of snow.

Even after 11 years of living here in Kansas it still

makes me laugh when I hear the schools are closed

because of a few inches of snow. 

I guess it's all in what you get used to.

I hope you have a wonderful week!

Maura :)