We've got snow!

    
      After an inch or so yesterday, we awoke to find about three inches covering our driveway.  Although the nearby mountains have gotten a little snow before today, this is the first we've had.  I smiled to myself as I listened to people saying how much we got because of the lake effect from Lake Tahoe!  Those of you from Pittsburgh know what I'm alluding to!
    

     Carson City is in a kind of valley surrounded by the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.  We do get snow but not nearly as much as Tahoe which sits about 2000 feet higher than we do.  The ski resorts, according to this morning's paper, got from 14 to 18 inches, and they're all open this weekend - glad to have the weekend to open the season.
 

      By the end of the week, we'll be back in the 50s which is more normal for this time of year, but it's nice to see the white.  And from what I hear even when we do get snow it doesn't stick around long.  I'll let you know!