more snow

As it continues to snow, the isolation is starting to wear on us, especially confronted with the biggest holiday of the year. Poor Audrey was so upset last night about (probably) missing Christmas with family and thinking we're going to freeze or starve to death "way out here." The novelty has surely worn off. But today, the kids are going to make a fake fireplace, a la Julie's family. It'll give the kids something to do and bring a little Christmas spirit to the house. We have no tree, no decorations and neither does Jennifer (our housemate). We'd both planned on getting it last weekend, but plans went awry.

So here's a visual recap of how it's gone over the past week


On Sunday morning, the plants were dusted. And the grape arbor has a nice layer of snow.

Today they're almost completely covered. (Yeah, the lump in front of the tree and the dark spot to the left.)

And the grape arbor is filled with ice-covered snow.


And it's still snowing right now.