Day Eleven (Word Count: 19,551)

Back on track for Saturday. Given, this day was at least as busy as the last and much more exciting to boot. We took the whole gang down the hill so that Poncho and Born Dancin' could see the doctor. This involved digging out of the 2 feet or so of snow we received and trekking down the hill, which took about an hour (as opposed to the 20 minutes it would normally take). This is the most snow I've seen up here at once in a long time. The roads were sheets of snow and people were, as always when snow arrives, insane. We packed a bag in case we couldn't make it back up the hill, even, because the roads were being shut down (even now, busses and big rigs are not allowed on the mountain).

It turns out the kids have nothing more than bad colds, the the course of treatment was just to continue what we have been doing. That's a lot of work to find out that everything was what you thought it was. We had lunch and then began the even longer trek back home. It had been snowing the whole time we were down the hill, and the snow level dropped to about 1,500 feet--kids in Highland were making snowballs, and even some parts of desert San Bernardino had accidents due to ice. We did thankfully make it home, and now we're looking at closer to 3 1/2 feet of snow, which I'm about to set out to blow away (if my much-more-mechanically-competent neighbor can fix the augur). Sadly, I had to miss my last Voicetrax class, because I just wasn't going to get out there again and leave Joanna with the sick kiddos.

And a good thing, too, because Born Dancin' simply did not sleep last night, waking up every half an hour to scream for the other half, and it's been a strange time. I did sneak into the office between 3 and 4am to add a few more pages; they're probably rambling madness, but they add to the word count, so that's enough for me at this point.

Sorry for the long update about the very exciting weather. I'm just off to get back out into it. Hopefully I'll get to post today's accumulation of words (and snow) while it's still today.