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Gillette, WY
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October 5, 2013

Film Friday: Let it Snow

Last Friday, we woke up to a blanket of fresh snow.  I had heard rumblings of expected snow mixed with rain in the days prior, but I’ll admit I thought that meant mostly rain with a few miniscule snowflakes mixed in — after all it was still September.  Little did I know that when northern Wyoming says snow, it means snow.

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Not tiny little flakes you can barely see, but enough to go sledding

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and to build snowmen…even in a month that ought to be full of crunching leaves and pumpkins.

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I was a little surprised, but I figured we’d just go with the flow.  We dug out winter gear for Zara (thankfully I had ordered Nora’s the week before), played in the snow, listened to Christmas carols, and drank coconut hot cocoa.  It all felt like a fun September surprise which promptly (and thankfully) melted away into a few more days of fall.

Silly me, I thought last week was a fluke.

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No, I am learning that all the talk I heard about Wyoming having two seasons — summer and winter — was no exaggeration.  Last night the snow started back up again, and it snowed all day today, dumping more than a foot of snow, possibly even two.

We stayed snuggled up in the house most of the day watching a movie, eating popcorn, and generally doing things that I would expect from a December Friday, not an October one.

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Then around 4:00, we decided to go outside and shovel the driveway for Chris (who owes me big time — that was hard!).  Nora mostly played and Zara supervised from the garage while I managed to get half the driveway done before getting worn out.

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I made a new resolution today: no matter the weather, we are going to spend at least 30 minutes outside every day.  Anywhere else, that resolution would sound ridiculous and unnecessary, but I am realizing how much I miss all the outside time we had in Nantucket walking to everything and that I had fallen into a rut of only going out on nice days.  I’m not sure yet that I can do much about all the time we spend in the car, but I’m going to do what I can to make sure we get plenty of fresh air and exercise even with what is shaping up to be a very long winter.

I put together a little film of our fun last week.  Enjoy!

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