We have some serious spring fever around our home. As you can see above, Hunter is COLD this morning. This weekend Hunter took a shovel to the basketball court at the park, cleared the slush, only fell in the nearby water once and spent hours on Saturday and Sunday shooting baskets. Rather than temperatures warming up…which the cold temps are actually good for ND flooding, we have been given a spring fever gift…indeed another all out blizzard on the prairie. Hunter is home with no school. We have 11″ of new snow this morning with 30 mph winds. It is still snowing. This is not good as it moves east into the flooding Fargo Moorhead area. However last night after supper Nathan and Hunter made the most of it…
With a snowball fight
They circled around the house. Elissa and I watched from many windows. The below pic I took from the window…Hunter lurking across the field to sneak up on Nathan. Only Nathan was in the garage laughing from a window saying “Hey Katie watch Hunter try to sneak up on me!”
By the end of it, Hunter was actually hiding in an empty garbage can. I’m sure there will be round two before the snow melts.
Yesterday before the weather dramatically took a down turn there were THOUSANDS of geese flying around our house. Like 7000 in the field across the way…Elizabeth learned to say “geese”. We even went on a drive after church and the local Lions club pancake feed and drove out a few miles to Green Lake to see the thousands of geese on the lake. The horizon and sky was black from flocks of Canadians and then also had a huge flock of white from the Snows. Nathan pointed out that they must know the weather is changing because they were very unsettled and started to fly SOUTH again. Not a positive sign!
Flapping her wings. Geese created big time excitement for Elissa. All birds in the sky are now geese. (No she did not wear her runners to church…she can quickly slip off her black patent leather shoes and not the velcro strapped runners which were put on right after church.)
Elizabeth wants to be on the porch all the time. All you could hear was a roar yesterday afternoon of the cackling of the geese. She is telling us all about it and getting the kids to actually smile at the camera didn’t happen.
Sunday kiss from Daddy
Smiling and hopeful for springIt seems like I blog about the weather a lot these days. It definitely is impacting our entire state and daily life. For spring fever therapy, I just keep dreaming of landscaping our few acres that currently does not have a single tree, hedge or perennial flower in its soil. A lot of prairie grass with great snow cover…again. I used to think my mom and grandma analyzing their flower and vegetable seed catalogs had to be so boring. Now I am just like them, dreaming of a flower and vegetable garden, ordering bulbs to renew my spring spirits!
On a serious note, Baby Townes is entering into his second surgery for his rare heart defect this morning in Los Angeles. Please pray for Townes, his medical team, parents Sara and Aaron, young siblings Owen, Max and Evelyn. You follow at: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/townsendhale
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Hey Katie, I love the pictures and the snowball fight is GREAT!! We have at least a foot of snow here and it keeps falling. I hear you we have Spring fever here bad too. Take care. . .Praying for Stellan and baby Townes as well.