Winter wonderland

Here's a photo of campus taken yesterday. We've had about 5 inches of snow and this morning it was a whopping ZERO degrees with a wind chill of who knows what. It's beautiful but fffffrrrrreeeeeeeeeeezzzzzing here in Middle America right now!

The kids were supposed to go back to school today, but it was canceled due to "inclement weather." Around here, 5 inches of snow will cancel school (heck, 2 inches of snow will cancel school) unlike Utah where I grew up. There we had regular 12-plus-inch snowfalls regularly and I had not a day of canceled school in 12 years! Out here snow is rare and they don't have near the equipment or resources to deal with it (we also generally get ice with snow -- not something Utah gets). We also live in a very rural district, and though they eventually get main roads scraped off, it's impossible to make all the bus routes safe.

So Big A and Little A and Angel the puppy are having a play day with the sitter again today. And here I sit at work, amid this beautiful winter wonderland.