Oh For the Love of Snow

Today was marked by the extraordinary efforts of our family to shovel the driveway.  Five storms in eight days (Global Warming my A$$), left our driveway packed.  But it wasn't just the snow.  Courtesy of our local snowplow driver our driveway was completely socked in with a 3 foot high wall of crusted ice.  This took the better part of the morning to hack apart and shovel aside.  At one point all five of us were out working.  A quick trip to the two local hardware stores for more shovels and a snowblower proved fruitless, as we were informed by a certain hick salesman, "Ain't got no shovels.  That's whut happens when a big starm comes in."  So we did it with what we had. 

We followed that with a walking of little Figgy (cute in her winter coat) and shivering Cinder.  Back from that we took the kids to Grandma Jan's where we sat and visited while spending time with her two new little Chihuahua's, newly named Tiki Tiki and Louie.  

After that we stopped by Heber Nails to get Jennie's nails fixed and filled.   That took a bit longer than expected.  While she was getting her nails done, I went into the local liberal hippie coffee house establishment with Figgy and had a bagel.  Afterwards, Jennie complained how cold it was, so home to warm up. 

Tonight we ate at Cafe Galleria, a little Italian Pizzaria in Midway that makes the most incredible little pizzas.  Really thin crusts, with really tasty cheese, sauce, and toppings.  I highly recommend this place.  We each finished our pizzas!

Then we watched Burn After Reading, a Coen Brothers movie that I will have to review later, but right now I can tell you it was a bit of a disappointment to me.   They were going for a Big Lebowski, and fell far far short, Jennie says.  

That was our day!

Pictures of Christmas Puppies and Festivities coming in a future post!

-Jason & Jennie

PS - Poor little Boo had the squirts.  And Cinder was trusted in the house alone while we went to get pizza, something she has not been allowed to do for a few months.  She immediately betrayed that trust by pulling down a cardboard box off the kitchen table filled with software and cables and chewed them into little tiny itty bitty microscopic pieces.

PPS - Last night we came back from Salt Lake and our Christmas Tree was totally dead, brittle and dangerous. So we took it down (it now beautifully adorns the front lawn) and the front room is a kennel for dogs!  It feels good and open though!  I'm glad we did it!

COMING SOON: Animal Introductions (with Pictures!!!)  Starting with Asher, Riley and Ame!!!