TEN INCHES OF SNOW FELL

Ten inches of snow fell on us this AM.
That is a lot of snow.

That is a lot of snow blowing and shoveling. We did both today.

And we are writing Christmas cards and sending off packages and making lists and checking them a couple of times and giving a party and going to some and doing other fun stuff.

And it is Christmastime.

The birdfeeder is full and the wood is stacked by the back door.

As we wrote in our annual Christmas Letter:

In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,
In the bleak midwinter, long ago.

In 1872, Christina Rossetti wrote what would become the beautiful carol In the Bleak Midwinter. The first stanza, quoted above, could easily have been written for this Christmas Season of 2008. A hard, cold winter has come upon many of us, and it is a good time to thank God for family, friends, and our many blessings.