Snow Days!

Seems like every year at one point or another, the weather man claims that there's a chance of snow. We always get so excited, and then... nothing. So this year, I didn't put a whole lot of stock in the forecast. 

On Sunday, it started icing a bit, but nothing of substance. But that evening, it started snowing HARD (especially for south Texas)! It was beautiful! We stayed up and watched it for quite a while. 

As we were getting ready to go to bed around midnight, we realized our pipes were frozen and we had no idea where. We were out in the snow and in the well house trying to pinpoint where we even needed to thaw, and we had a blow dryer, space heaters, and more! We were so cold, but we finally figured it out. We woke up to a beautiful winter wonderland on Monday morning! School was cancelled of course. For the next couple days, we played in the snow some, relaxed, and Carson and I watched a lot of LOST. (This is all between rolling power outages, but ours were very consistent and reasonable lengths of time, which was not the case for so much of Texas.) Wednesday the snow finally melted for the most part. Abby and Aaron went to SA to stock up on groceries, because we were running low on food. Stores had been packed with lines wrapping around the building in the days previous with shelves being almost completely emptied--complete insanity--so we'd put off going. They managed to get enough to make due.

Then would you believe it? On Thursday, we got another big snow! It snowed all day long--huge, fat flakes. We were just amazed! Aaron and I went for a walk in the snow, and it was just gorgeous. 

All in all, it was a wondrous week. The kids were off of school the whole week long, and we had a great time.

I should acknowledge that we had it pretty lucky. So many (in our area and across the state) were without power for most of the week. Many were required to boil their water (we are on a well so we didn't have to). Many lost income that week. So it was hard. Our church raised almost $4000 in the weekend following to help a handful of Bandera families heavily impacted by the winter storm.

Back posted. Written 5/3/21.