This isn't the best snow shot we could post, but the boys are cute! Jake wanted his photo with Bentley on Sunday, but then he decided it was too cold out and so only let opa take a couple of shots. The snow bank behind them is where our terraced perennial garden is hidden beneath a huge pile of snow. The snowblower throws snow from the driveway onto the terrace. Where the snowblower isn't adding height to the snow layer and the yard isn't terraced to start with we only have a little more than a foot of snow on the ground. That's surprisingly little for a snow season where we've had 129.4 inches at the airport--our house has seen considerably more than that. 3.4 more inches at the airport and we tie the record set in the winter of 1954-55.
3.4 inches is totally doable. Anchorage's average seasonal snowfall is 74.5 inches and by March 19th we've seen 66.5 of those inches. So Anchorage averages another 8 inches of snow after March 19th. We only need 3.4 inches and this is not an average year. We probably won't bust the record out of the snowbank, but we should definitely top it by a few inches.
Hard to believe that spring officially starts Wednesday. I predict that we will not be doing an egg hunt in the yard this year.
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