January, February, and half of March were totally brutal as far as weather goes. It was arctic blast after arctic blast. Finally on March 12th, just a week after Samuel sledded into the dry creek, the weather broke and the boys were playing without coats off at the park.
Our neighbor's yard turned into a lake, as it's prone to do due to the dumb road and culvert they installed behind our house. The entire field drains into her yard. Brilliant engineering.
She was out there with a shovel to push ice out of the way so the water could flow.
Terry and I walked down to see her waterfall and when we turned around we could see the sunset reflecting in the reforming ice waves on the sidewalk.
I sent this picture to someone the next morning. We were doing school despite the public and private schools cancelling due to a "massive" blizzard that was approaching.
There was supposed to be a lot of snow (18 inches predicted) and a whole lotta wind so the town got shut down. But we had nearby people over to hang out and play Axis and Allies
Steven and Prae came as well as Silas who was home from the Naval Academy on spring break. Dylan, newly returned from Africa, braved the perilous drive across town and was stranded with Prae and Steven overnight (so was Zeb). And Zeb came because he knew he couldn't make it up his parent's steep driveway.
I had zero interest in playing such a complicated game so I baked cinnamon rolls, cookies...
...and shepherds pie, which I fed to everyone for dinner.
Terry whooped them all pretty quickly (in like three hours), which was surprising since he always talked about college games taking an entire weekend. Afterwards Terry and Steven sat down and dug into the complex rules to make sure they were playing correctly. They weren't. They vowed to do better the next day.
Breakfast the next morning was glorious. We gave some to ur neighbor across the street. He stopped by to tell us his wife had just died. 😞
The storm ended up ending on Thursday, but school was still cancelled. They group took a break from their second game of Axis and Allies to go get Blaze Pizza for lunch (it was pi day) and in order to shovel out.
That's a pretty big pile next to the Malibu.
More big piles next to the driveway and sidewalk.
Pretty tall drifts in the back. You can see how short the fence appears. We hadn't had a drift there since Atlas I think...but on that occasion the drift when right over the fence.
There were two drifts on front corner of the yard too.
Luna enjoyed playing fetch with that football.
Kitten Cat enjoyed watching everyone from safety.
More playing after lunch.
The kids were getting bored. The A&A game had began shortly after 9 or 10am but showed no signs of ending so I let the kids play video games despite it not being a weekend (we had done school that morning at least). Terry's game didn't end until after 6pm I think (we watched a movie too while waiting)! Talk about an all day event! After the first game ended so quickly we were not prepared for such a large time investment for the second game. Turns out they didn't know what they were doing in the first game. That's enough Axis and Allies for about a decade. 😜😂
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