Signs of Spring...

I took these pictures on a day that was so spring like that we were all outside in our short sleeves, riding bikes, skating and hanging out in the yard.

The next day, the snow fell... again... and we had about 8 or 10 inches of the white stuff covering everything.

But...

Hey, that is spring in the inner mountain region.

I am just so encouraged to see little green shoots coming up from the brown earth!

It makes me smile.

Now the snow is almost gone... again.

Every single snow storm we have had this year has been the really heavy, wet snow.

I know...

some of you are saying, "Isn't all snow wet?"

Well...

technically yes...

but

No... not really. Sometimes it is just sopping wet and makes the really easilly formed snowballs that you can ream your children with... what? Who said that? I would NEVER do that...

Anywho...

Every snow this year was really wet and it caused a lot of damage to the trees around here. We had a couple of neighbors trees come down on our fence and there are branches down all over the place.

Mark spent a day cutting, trimming, pulling...

and then that aforementioned snow fell. Now, he is just waiting for it all to melt so he can load it into the back of the truck and haul it away to the green waste.

Yeah...

That is just a small portion of the damage.

Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

Yep... Family Project!