New Year

Holy smokes, where did December go? I turned around and Christmas was over and it's already a new year. Our Christmas was nice despite the snowstorm that dumped 25 inches of snow on us. We were going to have Christmas Eve at Ram's parents house which is about 100 miles away and then the Saturday after, the 26th, our daughters and their families from Fargo were coming out to the farm for our Christmas dinner. Nothing went as planned.

It stormed from Wednesday afternoon clear through Saturday morning. I had two turkeys, a huge ham, and a ton of other food to cook for Christmas and only the three of us to eat it. Ram was finally able to get his big 4WD pickup out of the yard on Sunday and we loaded up all the food and took it into Diana's house in Fargo, where everyone met and had a wonderful day. On Monday Ram borrowed a skid steer from his boss and cleaned out our yard and Tim and a friend cleaned off the two-plus feet of snow on the roof. I took pictures.


That's my Rodeo under all that snow.





Big weird ribbon icicle.



Ram trying to get his big (very dirty) pickup out of the yard. It took him over an hour, but he did it. Yeah, picture was taken through a window, okay?



I did go out for a walk the next day though. The house doesn't look too bad from this angle.



Riley says, "enough, let's go finish off that turkey!"

Our little Christmas tree on a table.


I just took the tree down today. I think that's the longest I have ever left it up. I usually take it down the day after Christmas, but since it was kind of an extended holiday this year (We finally had Christmas with Ram's family on New Year's Eve), it stayed up longer.

Happy New Year everyone!