Just when I think I'm out...

...they hit me with more snow.

For both Sunday and Monday, it was in the mid to high 40's and lots of sun. The result was a pretty nice melting of all the snow that we had acquired over the last month or so. I was just about to start seeing the Christmas lights that have been buried and displayed for a month too long... and we got hit with even more snow.

It started snowing late Monday night and it continued into Tuesday... and then into Wednesday. It was the particularly annoying kind of snowfall that occurs when you get a small amount of snow over several hours. We only ended up with about 4 inches of snow and it was the light fluffy kind, but the span of the storm made it very annoying. You never know when it's going to stop, so you almost don't want to go out and shovel because if you leave less than an inch of snow then the whole thing freezes over and the driveway becomes an ice skating rink. See, this is the kind of shit you won't find from a guy writing a blog in Miami.

And, we've officially hit the "screw it" stage of winter here in Massachusetts. This is the stage when people, much like alcoholics, start to bargain with themselves over what exactly is the shovelling point. "5 inches or more and I'll go out. Eh, whats an extra inch? Just drive over it." Most of the neighbors didn't even bother to shovel and, if we didn't have the mix of small nieces and nurses for my dad coming to the door then we probably wouldn't have bothered, either.

Just in case you were wondering, average snowfall for this point of winter in Boston is about 24 inches of snow. We've already had 50 inches of snow so far. Aren't we just the little over-achievers.