SNOW!

Yesterday afternoon, the sky grew so dark that although it was only about 3 pm, I turned on the path lights that we turn on at night. It remained dark dark all the way until night time, and thunder shook the sky while lightning flashed around and acorns thumped hard on our tin roof. I told Will it might rain, which would be good because it hasn't rained in months and the land is very dry. Will said maybe it would snow.

Although it's cold and I always feel cold, I thought it didn't feel cold enough for snow. Nate got home from his first day back at school, and not long afterward, lightning struck our house and we heard a big 'pop' from the bathroom. It had blown out the heating element on our hot water heater. No hot water. When we tried to call about it, we found that the lightning had also killed our phone. Everything else was still working fine and neighbors helped us call about getting repairs done. But nothing could be done at that time of night, so we resigned ourselves to cold water and no phone.

This morning we awoke to see the ground covered in white, with snow still coming down. In fact, it is snowing heavily and it is just beautiful. If we get our water heater fixed, I'll take the kids out to play in it. I think it's piled about 6 inches high on the the wall outside our house now, which is especially fun because this might be the only snow of the year, and it's nice to have at least enough to play in. Yay for snow!!