School was cancelled last week due to a wicked snow storm and treacherous roads.
It's important to note that Idaho schools NEVER cancel for snow. We're tough that way.
But last Thursday was different. It snowed quite a lot and driving was a challenge, even for the most experienced Idaho spud. This meant jammie day at our house.
Jammies while watching cartoons...
...and jammies at toy time...
...and storytime in jammies...
...and jammie snuggle time...
...but, more importantly, mess making. In jammies, of course.
Dads don't get snow days.
However, when they get home from work, dads LOVE to play in the snow.
Who needs a snowman when you can have your very own front yard igloo?
Leave it to my guys to figure out how to make an igloo happen!
This is one proud igloo-papa...
First it snows. Then it freezes and you've got ice. Then it snows again and freezes over into a thicker sheet of ice. Add, to that, a few more days of snow and a generous dose of ice. Then the temperatures decide to party in sub-zero zone and the snow and the ice never ever, ever ever melt. Snow and ice and ice and snow. And inversion.
An inversion is where arctic winter air gets trapped into the valley and warmer air blesses the mountains. The high and the low for the day are insanely cold in the valley; the kind of cold that numbs your extremities, as you walk outside, before your body can register the thought that ZERO degrees is FREEZING. And when it's that cold outside, you get frost. But not just normal frost. You get inches of frost, everywhere. It looks like a beautiful picture postcard from, oh, I don't know, Antarctica perhaps?!
See what I mean???
That's FROST. Not snow, peeps!
Our poor pups, ordinarily outdoor dogs, have become garage dogs. It is WAY too cold for our furbabies to spend much time outside and after a few minutes of prancing about in the frozen snow and ice of the backyard, they are begging to return to the warmth of the garage. If dogs daydream, then I'm quite sure our pups are filled with images of hot afternoons splashing about in a cool river.
Relocating to Bora Bora sounds like a really good idea right now. I'm just saying...
