As we went to bed last night Nina told me that she thought it was snowing. When I went out to get the newspaper this morning, this is the scene that greeted me. A light covering of snow on the grass, clear walks, driveway, and road, and bright, sunny, clear skies. By 10 a.m. the temperatures were closing in on 45° and the high today was 52°. The new snow was all gone by noon. There’s still a little bit of snow left in the back yard up against the south fence where the sun doesn’t quite shine at this time of the year. In another few weeks the sun will be far enough north that the whole yard will get sun during some part of the day.

The problem is, of course, no yard work is getting done. I think that’ll be my task tomorrow morning. The front yard needs to be completely raked and I’ve only got about a third of it finished. It’s supposed to get up to 60° — so a ride on the motorcycle may also be in the agenda. We’ll see. NIna’s niece Ashlyn will be here sometime tomorrow and will stay through the weekend. We’ll take her up to Rexburg next Tuesday for her to start her next term at college. It’ll be fun to have her here for a few days while she reacclimatizes to our cool, dry air after being in Ohio for the past four months. Spring must be close if the Spring Term is starting at BYU-Idaho!