Early Snow Storm

This morning I took my camera to work because it was just beautiful outside. I got some really nice photos of the students and around campus. Several people told me or Andrew that my photo (below) was featured on the channel 6 news Monday night but we didn't get to see it and I'm not sure who sent it to them.

Snow Days

We've had four snow days from the University during January and February. This is a record for our school. Today we got a few more inches of snow.  It's beautiful outside.  We are lucky that we have a polar bear puppy who loves the snow. We've been playing outside daily and loving it.

Mischief Makers

Nolan and our neighbor’s dog Lightening (read more about Lightening and his Thunder brother here); (Thunder has since moved away with our neighbors daughter but he visits regularly) have gotten to be fast friends since Nolan arrived in January.  We introduced them right away but Nolan hasn’t had much interest in anything but going to the potty and chewing on stuff up until the past two weeks.  On Tuesday Nolan and Lightening spent the better part of an hour running up and down the fence line between our yards talking to each other in their own special barking language.  Of course we were thrilled as Nolan slept like a log that night only asking to get up once to pee.  Yesterday we had a snow day after a whopping 9 inches of snow fell in Central Ohio.  Nolan whined off and on all day to go outside and ever time he got there I could tell he was looking for Lightening while pretending that he needed to pee.  Of course I heard Lightening standing at the neighbors sliding glass doors barking to go out so I called my neighbor and told her that Nolan wanted to know if Lightening could come out to play.  She laughed and said Lightening had been barking off and on to go out for the same reason and said she would send him out. Well long story short those two hatched a plot and in unison starting digging to get under fence in the same spot on opposite sides.  Believe it or not little Mr. Nolan instigated the entire escapade and they both continued to dig until I finally made Nolan come back inside with me.  He wasn’t happy but he did sleep good again last night.  I guess it is better that they are friendly with each other rather than the opposite as Lightening could eat Nolan for lunch.

Snow-rollers

The formations you see are called snow rollers. They are created when the temperature rises enough to make the snow packable and then strong winds blow the snow into rolls. The largest ones are about 12-24 inches in diameter. Not sure if we have had these in Ohio in my life time but on Sunday evening they formed all over parts of Ohio in open areas.  These photos were taken by me at Otterbein University and by Andrew at the high school near our house.

Click here for more about the Snow roller invasion