Mailbox - 0, Plow truck - 1

Sigh. Been saying for years DH should be snowblowing, not plowing, the winter path across the lawn between the driveways. It's on a slope right behind the mailbox post and I always feared the plow truck would slide into it...especially if we've had icing (and we have). Nah, says he. Right. Can anyone guess what happened when he was plowing they yard this morning? Snarl. Our mailbox, post and all, is laying in the back of said truck as I type. Can we say "Ree's not real happy"??? Sigh.....I guess it's a man thing. So...he'll be picking the mail up at the P.O. until he figures out a way to have the mailbox set up for them to deliver to.....coz I'm not driving 9 miles a day just to get the mail!!!

Speaking of that snow.....we got a bunch of it! It was really cold, so it was a dry snow....and it was really windy (they said gusts to 30 mph, but I say more!!), so it blew all over, making it hard to measure....but DH's experienced guess was 14 or 15 inches. There's 4 feet in some spots (like right in front of the house and against the back door!!!) and not a bit in others (like right in front of my truck....which is just unused space, usually!!)

Here are some pictures I took around 6:00 this morning with my almost new camera (early Christmas present to myself - a really cool Canon Rebel XS that I now need to learn how to use properly!!). This first pic is looking out the front door (facing east).....that's one of the support posts for our roof overhang and the snow on it (from the snowblower) is at a height of about 3 feet......so you should be able to guess how deep the snow is out beyond it, huh?

This second picture is that same post, but I'm facing northeast - showing how the snow drifted. As high as it is by the back of the Tundra.....the path in the foreground only had about 3 inches of snow on it!
(notice the mailbox is still in place past the back end of the truck? harumph.)















And here's one of DH plowing - yes, the snow really was up to the truck's headlights in that spot! Since there's no mailbox in the back, it was obviously taken before "the incident". grrrrr.

This last one is a picture of our NEW SHED - it finally got delivered last Thursday, but we need to put some non slip deck enamel on the floor before we start using it much....so when we find time to do that, we'll have to set up the little propane heater to warm it up enough to paint. Oh....and that snow covered lump in front of it? Well.....our car - a Buick LeSabre - is under it somewhere! What looks like the peak of an ice cream cone is about where the middle of the roof is on the car.
Done ramblin!