We had our second beautiful white Christmas in Washington, and I still am in awe that I live somewhere that snows in the winter and can look so amazing! For Jeff, however, the shine has come off, or should we say, the chains have come off? He seemed to have one problem after another with the chains on his patrol car, from two flat tires (on two consecutive days, no less) to near-spin-outs to losing chains and his cell phone in the snow in front of our house. He spent a few days shoveling the station parking lot, which got him major brownie points with the chief, but it was not to show off--all of the police cars were frozen in the lot, and no one could get in or out of the station because of the slab of ice underneath the several inches of snow. At our apartment, we received a total of 19 inches of the white stuff in just two days, and then it melted, and then after New Year's we got 8 more in just one night. The good news: because we are high enough to get all of this snow, we are high enough not to have any flooding, a huge blessing when we watch the news about the rest of our poor state. At any rate, I still think it is beautiful, but I don't have to drive in it. And Charlie sure loves to play in it!
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