Three-three-zero-four

Today's total is being reported a little early & that is just how Don reported it, three-three-zero-four (3,304)!!! The snow total has dropped to 2 feet in Franklin Basin & 3.5 feet at Tony's Grove. The snow is melting, but because there is normally nothing there or very little, the snow that is still there is driving the percentage up. Make sense? It didn't to me until it was explained. I kept thinking the rain we were getting was sure dropping a lot of snow in the mountains. I'm relieved to hear it is melting.

Now, I just hope people stay off the wet, muddy roads. We ran an article in The Preston Citizen a week or so about it. It was just below the Rural Route (rowt) News in hopes that it would be noticed.

It sure was nice sleeping weather last night. This morning Don & I got up earlier than Nick did. I usually get a can of soda pop first thing in the morning. But I didn't want to go out through the kitchen & into the laundry room & risk waking Nick up by fussing with the door. We keep the soda pop in the extra fridge in the furnace room. I went out the front door, around to the side of the house & through the side door into the laundry room, retrieved the pop & came back the same way.

By 9:30 Nick was still asleep & I was getting worried. He's been sleeping poorly & last night he took some Zyrtec in addition to his usual night time meds. So, I tiptoed out to the kitchen & looked in through Nick's door. I thought he said "Hello," so I asked him really quietly if he was ok. Well, that did it! I woke him up & it was like waking a hibernating bear. I told Don it was ironic that I had tried so hard not to wake him up by taking the long way around to get the pop & then woke him up, checking to see if he was still alive.