Windless Hill

We had a beautiful 6" snow last night. This morning it was near 30 with absolutely no wind. I think we were either in the eye of the eternal Nebraska windstorm, or we got lucky and experienced the 30-minute window when the wind changes from south to north.




For some reason the Lincoln city snow plows had acutally plowed the streets with their blades down and made the streets passible. We took advantage of the fortunate conditions and went sledding at Pioneers Park. The tobogan run wasn't crowded and the snow was perfrect. The boys sledded until they couldn't walk up the hill any more (and JP's feet were frozen).


By the time we left, there was a line on the slides, the wind had picked up out of the north, and it was getting crowded enough to be dangerous flying downhill on a snow tube.

Last trip to Zoo in 2006

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We took advantage of the crappy weather after Christmas to hit the zoo one last time in '06. Although it was cold and yucky, the Omaha zoo has more than enough indoor attractions to fill a day. We wandered through the aquarium, ate lunch, did the rainforest, and then finished off with an underwater I-Max.

Christmas 2006

Christmas was once again an exciting event. Not only did Santa stop by our house, he even brought Gramma & Grampa from Utah. G&G were in SLC, planning on driving out on the 22 or 23, but a big snowstorm between us and them nixed those plans, and they returned to St. George. We figured that they would not make it, and the kids were sad. Upon hearing the news, GP promptly wrote a letter to Santa and asked the big guy to stop by and pick up G&G and bring them to our house. At 5pm Christmas day, G&G pulled up in the driveway, just in time for Christmas dinner. What a treat!

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Snow!

We thought we were going to escape 2006 without any snow. Wrong. After three days of rain, the temperature cooled off and we had a good old fashoined blizzard for most of the day. Gramma & Grampa had to wait yet another day here. They left this morning (1/1/07) with a blue sky ahead of them.

CP had fun running the snow blower. GP does not have enough weight to get the necessary traction to move the machine. Both had fun getting blasted as I cleared the driveway.