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Last night at the start of the snow in Mankato from BLC’s live webcam

We were hit with a huge snowstorm overnight. You know, the kind that would have made national headlines on the East Coast. We Minnesotans chuckle when NYC gets a blizzard that shuts down the city; the same thing in Minneapolis barely makes the news. We just dig out and continue on our way. Not today, though. For the first time in many years, schools were closed along with most businesses. Some people lost power, but we were only annoyed with internet outage until 3pm. It took us (translated to husband) until 2pm to blow the drive way - I shoveled the back and front steps, thank you very much. My son grudgingly brushed off the cars and then entertained himself by allowing our red tabby cat to “escape”, run excitedly about five feet, have a “what the….” moment and then carefully work his way back to the porch. No, it wasn’t torture…just good entertainment for a few minutes. That cat lives better than some people.

Monday afternoon in Mankato from BLC’s live webcam

Anyway, today was a Snow Day for everyone in the family. I really don’t remember the last time that occurred. This storm is being compared to the Twin Cities version of the Halloween Blizzard of 1991, but it pales in comparision to the true Halloween Blizzard of 1991 - Duluth style! It snowed for three days and when it was over, we opened our front door to a four foot snow drift. Thankfully, we had food, water, heat and electricity…and everyone was safely home, so it was actually fun. Our daughter was only 2 1/4 years old and I was 8 months pregnant with our son. We did not own a snowblower back then, so I was out there shoveling with Rob. Do you think that ANY of our northern neighbors had any sympathy for an obviously pregnant women shoveling her driveway? Nope! I was careful and the pregnancy continued on well past its due date, so no harm done.

Ironically, Randy Thomas is posting photos of pretty yellow flowers blooming in his yard and was live blogging from the beach over the weekend. Ugghh! Well, good for him.

Pretty yellow flowers of Florida

I could try live blogging from my home office looking out at the giant pine tree loaded with snow, but the only exciting thing that happens is that snow sometimes falls off the tree , a squirrel runs by or a car rolls by very slowly .

Live blogging a snowy day from a really bad cell phone photo through a black screen - the view from my home office desk

Tags: winter, snow, BLC, cats, son //