Happy Valentines' Day

How's your Valentines' Day?

I woke up at 6am and got 9"...

of snow that is. This is the first "real" snow we've gotten so far this season. (Which doesn't mean we haven't had snow so far; we have 69.5" as of last night.) But this was the most snow we'd gotten at one time this winter. The photo above was taken at noon.

And as of noon we measured:

almost 18" and it is still coming down.

We don't have a snow blower so we shoveled the driveway out by hand--well, by shovel...

And another 5" is forecast by 7pm with an additional 5" expected on top of that overnight.

UPDATE: The snow slowed down a bit and by 6pm, we had a total of 21". But it IS still falling!