It is only snow, after all!

This morning, Sunday, we started moving around at about 7:30, in plenty of time to be out the door by 8:30 to leave for church. A quick peek out the front window showed that we were going to have to move some snow around in order to get to the car and to get the car out the driveway. We received aproximately 10-12 inches of snow in the past 24 hours. Shannon and I quickly threw on our snowclothes. He started using his lawn tractor to blow a path down the driveway for the van while I used a scoop shovel to clear a path from the house to the van. We came back in at about 8:15. I took a fast shower and was getting dressed while Shannon was shaving when it came over the radio that morning and evening services are canceled at our church today. So, all of the kids are outside playing right now while Shannon and Collin are moving more snow. I am in the warmth, cleaning house, doing laundry and typing to you. When I was a child, this much snow didn't stop much and I remember only a couple of times that church was ever canceled. I know one was for bitter cold, it was about 30 below zero and another was in the middle of a whiteout blizzard. Minnesotans have become wimps over the past several years of easy winters. The weather forecast says there is more snow coming later today. If we get a wind we will be in big trouble. The neighbor girls have brought their 4-wheeler and toboggan down to our place and are pulling the kids around the yard. It is fun to watch as our two dogs follow the train around the yard, barking and wagging their tails the whole time.


I was thinking this is something we won't be dealing with in Mwanza. They don't get any snow there, of course. We will deal with two dry and two wet seasons every year instead. Flooding is more likely to be a problem where we will be. It doesn't take a lot of rain there to really make a mess of the roads and paths. A 4 wheel drive vehicle will be a need where the land is located. When the team was there last fall that was one of the first things Shannon noticed. He says much of the time a regular vehicle will be fine but when it is rainy that won't work. Temperatures will generally run between 50 and 90 year round. We check the temperature in Mwanza by computer often. Yesterday at 2:30 PM our time, 10:30 PM Mwanza time, the temperature there was 72F.

Anyway, if you are in our area, have a fun day digging out but take some time to make a snow angel or slide down a hill too. I am hopeful that someone is reading this even though no one posted in the comments of my last post. That is fine but please let us know privately or through comments later that you are reading. I know some of you who are reading, or at least have read in the past. It is weird to write not knowing for sure who I am writing for.