First Day of “Winter”

We have had a very mild winter here in our area of England. We got the occasional flurry of snow (once or twice), and we even got a dusting on our patio one morning!

Once in awhile there was a prediction of snow flurries, but if we got them during the night, they were gone by morning. They were getting snow back home (Wisconsin), and I was very jealous! Andrew is not a fan of snow. Snow = cold. And slippery roads. But I adore snow. When there’s no snow, winter just seems depressing. A nice blanket of white snow everywhere makes winter pretty. Plus I love bundling up in scarves and gloves!

Well, it finally happened. After a snow-less January, we got a prediction for snow again this past weekend (first weekend in February). I was skeptical. Then I looked at a more extensive weather forecast for our area, and saw that 13 cm was predicted. I looked it up…that’s about 5 inches. I was practically jumping for joy!

We were dog-sitting for friends of ours that weekend, so I actually did have a reason to look outside every few hours. We were getting very light flurries by 7pm, and then when I took the dog out again around 10pm we had this:

When we went to bed, we had about 3-1/2 inches! I only knew this because we had a measuring tape in the utility room right next to the back door. 🙂 Very handy when you traipse out in the snow in your pajamas to measure snowfall! Takoda, the dog we were watching, likes to go outside and then have breakfast around 6am, and by then the snow was done falling. But we had a whopping 5 inches covering the ground!

It was perfect snowman-making snow: wet and packable! No, I didn’t go out and make a snowman, but I did make a few snowballs (with my bare hands, brr!) to toss to Takoda (she wasn’t interested). And our yard looked absolutely beautiful with snow!

Since it was a Sunday, it was a pretty lazy day for us. We were hoping to have friends over for dinner, but the roads weren’t well plowed, especially by us out in the country. They didn’t get our road plowed until Monday afternoon! I did a lot of crocheting, Andrew did computer research online (he desperately wants to improve my old desktop from 2003…), and Takoda snoozed between coming by us for attention.

By now, a lot of our snow has melted, but I’m really hopeful for another snowfall or two before spring. At least I finally got my first day of “winter” weather in England!