Gabe's Winter Blizzard Experience in Idaho

Oh What Do You Do In the Wintertime When All the World is White?

As you know, we had a blizzard on Monday. These are a few of the pictures Alan took after the wind settled down. Click on the pictures twice if you want a better view. This is Grandma and Grandpa Baum's front porch.

















These pictures are taken looking east toward the Tetons from in front of the east cellar.

These pictures remind me of the layer of rock named Navaho that you can see out at the wedge on the desert. Look at how the wind carves the snow into such interesting shapes.

This is my garden ornament. It sticks out of the soil about three feet. So you can see we have a good snow depth.

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This is the front of the east cellar. You can see how high the snow drifted from the blizzard.

This is Zack in the Joh Deere clearing our neighbor's driveway.






























I think Zack was trying to blow the snow across the highway into the windbreak.

These are pictures Alan took this morning (Thursday) of the sunrise. Approximately 7:40 a.m. Its pretty nice when you can look out your kitchen window and see this in the morning.

This picture show the snow depth from the highway. It is pretty deep out there so don't get off the track.

Tuesday, No School -17 Degrees This Morning

Two days in a row out of school. What could be better. I'm just catching everyone up on what we're doing. the blizzard Sunday and Monday left a mess outside yesterday. The fields look like a frozen white sea. Alan got up very early and blew snow for us, Kris, Kent, the Connors, our L neighbor, and a few others so we could all get to the funeral at 10:00. It was a nice funeral for our close friend Kevin Egbert. We are sad that he is gone and at age 47 it was a real shock. He had a heart attack and his wife, Dawn(an R.N.), could not revive him. Then the deep freeze really came. This morning we read all the schools who were not holding classes today. I can't think of one school from American Falls north to us and from Teton to Challis that went to school today. Even the senior citizens meals on wheels got cancelled today. I went to a relief society meeting this am and by the time I had run frommy car to the church my nose and the boogers were frozen. BRRRRR. The young men are going to the temple open house tonight so Alan is going with them. I'm going VTing from 5 - 7 and then I have the book activity group at our house tonight. I made some good treats for it, but I wonder if anyone will come. Today I practiced tennis on the wii. I'm now at about 1600. Yes, I've gone pro - but it's getting harder and harder to get a win from these miis. We are enjoying everyone's blog. Keep doing it, it helps the winter blues I get from really setting in. I think I have a little cabin fever and need to go to a warmer climate. Does anyone have airline tickets to Hawaii they would like to give me? That's All for Now folks.

A Wintery Flurry

It has snowed and snowed the last 24 hours. I'm sure we have over 3 feet of snow. Shortly after church, the wind started to pick up, not really strong, but enough to carve and make some good drifts.

This picture is looking north from our house across the garden toward the north and the back machine shed. The yellow things are the mint wagons.

This is a close-up of the same picture. I was kind of disappointed when the wind blew the snow off the sunflower heads. I was enjoying the accumulation of snow and was curious to see how much snow could build on them over the winter.

Our sidewalk with drifts. Zack shoveled the walks when we got hom from church, a lot of good it did!

There is a big snowdrift in this shot. It is building even as I'm blogging. The drift is directly infront of the garage. The snow is blowing from the north across the roof of the garage and the snow is getting deposited right in front of the garage doors. I hope you can see the snow in the picture.

This is me, Alan, trying my hand at updating our blog.

These are some recent winter pictures arround the house you might find interesting.

It is interesting how crystals will form after a night of fog.

This is our new fence looking south towards pine trees after a night of heavy snow.

That's all for now...