New weather and the beginning of the end

Lots of new weather experiences this past week for us...Tuesday night we had a windstorm that knocked out power to a ton of homes in the area..trees fell, power went out...crazy! We were lucky and didn't lose power, but our lights did flicker quite a bit that night. This afternoon we had planned to watch the new HP film...and then it started to snow! Though we have both experienced snow previously, this is sort of new to us since now we have to learn to drive in it and maneuver icy road conditions. So no movie today. I kind of don't want to see it anyway...not because I don't want to watch the movie, because I really do, but because this is the beginning of the end and it makes my heart very sad.

Afternoon snow flurries and our little Christmas tree.