We got a lot of snow overnight! On the deck there was probably about 14"...most of that had fallen after 6pm when it got dark.
I snow blowed the driveway. The snow blower worked well, but it was so slow. I could only remove about 5 linear inches at a time, otherwise I'd overwhelm the auger.
Then the rest of the family came out and we played outside for close to two hours. We started with a snowman and then made a fort with the snowman as a corner. The snow was odd. It was wet and packed well, but it didn't stick to itself well. So when we were rolling snowballs for the snowman it mostly just compressed the snow under the snowball. For the fort, I was in charge of making the bricks. It was really satisfying to take them out of the mold. (I did learn that I needed to pack the snow tightly but not too tightly, otherwise they wouldn't come out.)
The plow came through about ten minutes before the fort was finished, but after I had finished making bricks. Luckily, I had snow blown extra in front of the mailbox and so barely any snow was put into our driveway! Unluckily, our neighbors weren't so lucky. It was also really wet snow and about to get colder. The neighbors across from us had a huge pile so I shoveled enough that they could get out in the morning. The neighbors diagonal from us didn't have a massive pile, but I shoveled a bit for them anyway. There is no warm-up in the forecast, and dealing with icy snow on the driveway is not pleasant.
