Backyard War Zone

Woke up this morning to a cloudy day, but not the supposed 6-8 inches of snow. Just can't trust the weather forecasts for this region. I got to work quickly - 25 minutes - by 8am with little traffic this morning unlike the typical 45 minutes. By 9am the sky was gray and some snowflakes sauntering in. After that I think someone teleported some great lake effect snow bands into the area. Six hours later when the snowstorm moved on there was 10.5" of snow on the ground.

I decided to wait out the storm a bit and did not leave the office until 4pm, after the snow had stopped falling and giving some time for the road crews to clear some snow off the roads. I saw a postal truck in a ditch and decided to stop and make sure everything was alright, which it was. The driver had dropped one wheel into the ditch and the soft ground from the rain and warm weather hid the mud under the snow. He spun the rear wheel until it was buried to the axle and I could not help him since my truck had no traction. While talking to him two plows gang plowing drove by and pushed a snow drift onto the road, so when I went to leave, I didn't move but the back started drifting towards the ditch. Thankfully the post carrier leaned on tailgate and I got moving again.

But the big news was when I arrived home at 5pm I found my backyard was a complete war zone.

It seems my backyard with the retaining wall became the neighborhood gathering place for the neighbor boys. It seems that while playing with Max they just kept playing and built 5 different forts, one with a huge snow wall. There were six boys in the backyard when I got home, an hour later three other neighbor boys had joined, along with two kids from a neighboring home school and three parents.

Max wan't interested in the snowballs, but fetched the sprocket toy for whoever threw it while I shoveled a small walkway up the driveway and sidewalk. I'm not going to clear the driveway because tomorrow it is supposed to be sunny and 40, which started the warming trend for the rest of the week.

It snowed today, and it was a good day. 8^)