The forecast called for snow on Thursday. The TV said it would snow. And guess what? It definitely snowed!! Between six and ten inches of snow came down in various places on the eastern side of Cleveland. Here in Chardon the snow held off until about 4pm and then it really let loose! Within an hour we had three inches of snow on the ground, traffic was at a standstill, and at least a dozen accidents in and around town. Lake effect snow is forecast on and off tonight and all day tomorrow. We’ll have a break in the weather on Saturday with significant snow forecast on Sunday. We definitely plan to be gone Saturday morning!!

Tuesday was a beautiful day! Nina, her sister Pam, and I took a drive through Ashtabula County and took a tour of covered bridges. There are nineteen of them in the county and we were able to visit eleven of them. We also saw a number of amazing churches, buildings, houses, and visited with a couple of very interesting people. We had a great day!

Along the way we stopped by the house we bought when we moved from Germany to Chardon back in 1976. At that time is was a brand new house built by Jim Kitchen. He put this house up for sale as well as the house he was living in. We bought this one. For our older children, this was where they grew up, went to school, and where Jim left to go on a mission. We moved away and sold the house in 1989. Not much has changed with the house, but the trees have certainly grown! When we lived there the house number was 10330 Thwing Road. Something changed! The house is now numbered 10310 Thwing Road.

Life is great. We’re warm. It’s still snowing.