Snow Day!

We woke up to about 14 or 15 inches of snow on Wednesday morning (the TV station reported 17 inches at the station but I don't think we had quite that much at our house). Definitely a

winter wonderland out there.

The birds were happy that we had recently filled the feeders and were busy at the feeders all day. Our neighborhood wild turkeys were back again and having difficulties with all the snow. They were walking along the fence and staying up in the trees to stay out of the deep snow.

Owen took the first 2 pictures of our bird feeders out of our back window early in the morning.

Owen was beside himself with excitement. And I was pretty excited too to have the day off. Owen got outside to play in the big snow banks left by the plows right after breakfast and I did some shoveling (with Ken's arm still in a sling all the shoveling is left to me).

Then Owen and I headed to the grocery store to pick up a few things. And just in time because most of the stores were closing at noon in anticipation of the high winds, blowing and drifting snow and low visibility predicted for the rest of the day. At that point many of the roads had been plowed and we actually saw more people walking than driving so it wasn't too bad on the roads. It was a little too cold with the wind for Zora to get out so Owen and I headed to the sledding hill near our house while Ken and Zora stayed warm inside. With all of the kids out of school, the sledding hill was busy. Owen had a great time, though we didn't stay too long because

I was so cold!

Owen on his way up the hill...

and on his way back down.

We also took advantage of the day off to bake a loaf of pumpkin bread and skype with several different family members including Grammy; Cath, Seth and Rayna; and Ginney and Cade. We didn't getting anything done around the house and the place looked like it had been hit by, well, a blizzard, by the end of the day, but it was a very productive snow day.