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Let it snow! The weekend of February 11, 2006, we had 11 or 12 inches of snow fall at our house. About three miles north of here, 17 inches were recorded, while at National Airport (which is right on the Potomac), only 8 inches were recorded. Before Robin went to sleep Saturday night, she heard distant thunder, but alas, if there was a thundersnow, we slept through it.
Here's our annual snow portrait of our house. The small trees and bushes in front are so weighted down by snow that they are sprawling in different directions, and the overhanging tree isn't usually an overhanging tree.
This is the railing on our front porch. The snow must have been blowing some during the night for it to accumulate in this odd way.
Looking our from our front door, our cul-de-sac was still a silent white, kind of alien world at 9 a.m. On the other side of Linda's car, you can see that the lowest branch of the tree has broken and is hanging over the road.
One of the trees in our front yard.
This branch didn't block the road, but right after taking pictures, we went out and cut it down with the chainsaw so the snow plow didn't have to go around it. If the snow plow driver had to avoid it, he wouldn't have plowed very close to our driveway!
Here's Robin's new 2006 Honda Civic Hybrid under a foot of snow. This is our first big snow without 4-wheel drive. Civics are known for not being the greatest cars in snow and ice because they are so light. But for 40 miles per gallon, I can stay off the ice.
It's also a lot easier to shovel this car out of the snow than our old Chevy Blazer. We can reach the top of the Civic to get the snow off, and we never could do that with the Blazer.
Linda took this picture while standing outside our back door, looking up. The snow is so wet, it sticks to the trees until it either melts or gets knocked off by a good gust of wind.
These are our deck chairs lined up on our deck awaiting summer. Looks like it's going to be a long wait.
The tiki torches on our back deck also have a long wait to be used in the summer.
Tomato cages in the garden stacked up against the chimney. We thought for a while that spring was almost here. Glad we didn't act on that!
Our neighbor in back has a bunch of great big trees like giant Christmas trees in her yard. These two are so weighted down by snow that they are leaning over our fence. I think they look like old men reaching over to grab something out of our yard.
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