Delivering the Christmas Cards

This morning we skied to the mailboxes to deliver the Christmas cards.

This was a car that had a hard time this morning.


View of our house from the road.

At the mailboxes.



Joel skiing up the driveway.


My car is under the drift on the left. It is about 10 feet of car and snow!

Snow Before Thanksgiving

Snow Last Monday

Ice

Yesterday's Snow

CSF Campus.

Arriving home.

Mountains Today - from the back door

Watertown Houses

Snow is Good, Snow is Bad

The snow was beautiful yesterday - and there was a lot of snow. They say we got almost a foot.


This is where my car is stuck. There are really big drifts around the house and down the driveway. I was standing in the garage when I took this picture, so it didn't get very far. It is kind of high-centered - so it may be there for a while.

Cold Weather

This is the snow drift in our back yard this morning.


Joel working on the truck on Sunday.

Thanksgiving Snow

Wisconsin Cat

Wind Chill Factor

My friend Beth has been working this winter to create a library exhibit at Memorial Library in Madison. The exhibit is a compilation of writings created by graduate students. They have written about their winter experiences in Madison.

The exhibit is now available online here: http://memorial.library.wisc.edu/windchill/

Here are some lines from the work to which I can really relate (and I hope they will tempt you to enjoy the entire website):

"Even your laughter will freeze", were the encouraging words of one of my professors when he found out that I had decided to study at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. I did not believe him until it happened. In my first winter here not only my laughter froze, but also my hair, my lungs and finally my tears. - Giannina Reyes Giardiello

The weather here in Wisconsin is simply crazy. In the summer, it is so hot that it is hard to imagine that it can get cold again. But then, winter comes and it gets cold. Really cold. And as soon as you think it is impossible to get any colder, it will get windy. Like yesterday…. - Nicola Schmerbeck

Why? Why! Why?! - Tianlin Wang

Bandalier Skiing

The day was beautiful and pretty warm. It was really windy, but the trees protected us. The trail was well worn, a little icy, but fun!

Monday's Snow

Christmas in Wisconsin

Our trip to Wisconsin started out with a lot of airport issues. We got stranded in Minneapolis over night on the way to Milwaukee and then none of the passengers' luggage on our flight arrived in Milwaukee. We think all of our luggage went to La Cross, WI and then maybe back to Minneapolis before coming to Milwaukee. It was sad seeing literally thousands of bags waiting at the airport on Christmas Eve - probably filled with Christmas gifts. We were finally able to pick up or bags around midnight on Christmas Eve. Joel's family's tradition is to open gifts on Christmas Eve, so we were lucky we had mailed all of our gifts weeks before - and not depended on our luggage.

Below is a picture of us in Milwaukee after a night of very little sleep. And the piles of baggage that did not include our bags.



We attended Christmas Mass at the Basilica in Milwaukee.


Daniel on Christmas Eve.


Auntie Dianne and Auntie Loraine on Christmas Eve.



I took a trip to Madison on the day we received a lot of snow. Below is the walkway at the WI Historical Society where I took several classes during Library School.



Science Hall is below. The snow fell all day.


The Mall.



Below are a couple of pictures I took on State Street. The restaurant on the left is one of my all time favorites, Kabul. Right next door is another favorite - Husnus.




I met my friend Beth for lunch and we walked up the the capitol building.


The snow was really deep by the time I got back to Watertown. This is the snowplow that was going down Emerald Dr. He got out to tell me he had just slid backwards down the hill in front of him. He flagged down another plow (a heavier plow) and I followed to heavy plow all the way to Joel's parent's house.


Joel's picture of his dad plowing the driveway.



Mary the Cat.


Midnight the Cat. He is an outdoor cat.

Snow on Saturday Morning

More Snow

Frozen Tumbleweed Desert