Our first big snow day! Our winter has officially arrived, with minimal sunlight (yes, this was the brightest time of day) and snow! Since we're at sea level, the snow is quite wet and gets slushy easily, but it makes for a pretty scene!

This is the view from our front porch on the snow day. When the clouds aren't around, it's much brighter and you can see the big snow-covered mountains on the other side of the bay. Later this day, we decided to walk to Safeway for groceries. The walk usually takes about 20 minutes. It took us an hour to get there in the snow. Whew! It was a pretty walk, though.

When we got back from Safeway, we decided to make some warm comfort food. Nachos! There are french fried onions and ground bison on those bad boys. Good thing we spent two hours hiking through snow drifts before we sat down and ate these. My stomach still hurts. 

Good news! We drove the truck around the block! Mr. Amazing Tyler was actually able to fix the problem that has ben vexing us all summer. However, since every road in Seward is now covered in sheets of ice, we can't really drive it around town yet. We need to modify the chains we got for the truck so that they'll actually stay on the tires. But if something actually finally goes well with this silly peice of machinery, we should have a working vehicle in the next week or so! Which means *gasp* we can haul furniture to our house! A bed! A bed! I want a bed! I woke up face down in the carpet this morning because I nocked my Thermarest away last night. The resulting drool/carpet combination was not a pleasant way to start the day.