I’m trying a new method of including pictures with the web log. There’s a category of web logs called "picture blogs" where the image is the most important part of the entry. Often there aren’t any words associated with the picture, banking on the premise that a picture is worth a thousand words. Pictures do add to a posting, but in my case the pictures are seldom worth a few hundred words, let alone a thousand!

It is finally snowing today. Not anything substantial, just a very light, steady snow. If it keeps up we may have some real accumulation later this evening. The current weather is 27 degrees with a light 5mph wind out of the northeast. The radar shows a light snow in the area of Pocatello but nothing anywhere else in the southeast corner of the state. Chances are that this is a local storm and will soon blow away to the west.

It was enough snow that the framers working on a new house just north of us (on the left in the picture) stopped working about an hour ago and headed for home. It’s got to be miserable trying to do framing work in this weather as everything would be very slippery making conditions dangerous. There are three houses being built in our immediate neighborhood. The view in the picture above is looking to the north-northeast. There is a house being built behind us to the south and another house being built just outside of the picture to the left. There are seventeen lots to the south of us, four of which are reputed to have been sold. Within a few years we’ll be surrounded by homes and will be in a real neighborhood. It will be interesting to watch.

Yesterday’s weather was good enough that we put the lights up along the front of the house. Jared climbed up on the roof and did most of the work to string the lights. Daryl, Ashlyn, and her roommate (I need to ask her how she spells her name. It’s something like Marrin) helped get the lights ready to be put up on the house. Jared bought some clips that made attaching the lights to the house much easier to do. We got all finished, plugged them in, and … nothing. It turns out each string of lights is fused with a three-amp fuse. Six strings had gone up pulling a total of about 4.5 amps. The fuses had blown in the first string. Jared pulled up some additional extension cord, broke the string of lights in the middle, and after changing out the fuses in the first string, everything is now working and are on a timer. I think I’ll look around for some more stuff to put in the yard to make things a bit more festive. Since the weather is inducement to staying inside today, the artificial trees will come out and decorating will start. It’ll be looking a lot more like Christmas by the end of the day. Daryl drove back home last night (good thing given today’s weather). One of us will drive Jared to the airport in Salt Lake tomorrow afternoon and the other one will drive the two girls the opposite direction back to Rexburg. This lovely holiday weekend will then come to a close. It’s been a very nice Thanksgiving. Let it SNOW!