"WINTER"

Winter and more Winter.

As most of the family members know Stucko and I have had a very interesting Christmas this year with our snow storms, closed roads, and in my case a couple of blizzards. The question was if we would receive our Christmas from our family members in the lower USA. I know, I know, but that is how it has felt. 3 days in a row that streets and roads were not plowed here and then Stucko had the same thing, plus rain that had turned to ice and her state is not equipped at all to handle the ice and then the snow. And in my case to think that January and February are the biggest snow months in my part of the country, I truly shudder at the thought.

Sat., early I put my little pickup into 4 wheel drive and got to the grocery store for milk and bread. It was like, "FREE AT LAST". When you are house bound like this and have no control over any of the conditions outside you truly have Cabin Fever occur.

Friday (I think it was) Telluride and Silverton received 83 inches. Just one storm mind you. One of my neighbors is the head of housekeeping at one of the lodges in Telluride, she commutes from here each day, and she has had several days that she has had to go North to Dove Creek then out through Disappointment and around to Norwood and then on into Telluride as Highway 145 has been closed just outside of Dolores.

Needless to say the people in Silverton have been totally isoloated receiving their medicines and mail via helicopter whenever the weather conditions present themselves. This is not unusual up in January or February for them, but more than a little unusual in December.

All of this weather started back on December 13th. The first week the storms came in 4 different waves. Then the last one came in 3 waves.

I have played a lot of computer games, done a lots of reading and this Friday I will start taking down Christmas decorations. I am so glad that I ran out of time and did not get decorated outside this year. That would be a real bugger to try and get down. You can't move in the snow and everything is so frozen.