What Happened to Fall ??

 Yesterday we bought our Thanksgiving turkey, prepared our menu for next Thursday.  Spent the afternoon in the backyard having a "play date" with the CCI trainer and another CCI puppy and 2 other rescue dogs in training.  A little windy but not too bad.  I woke up to take the dogs out this morning and this is what I see - CHRISTMAS SNOW.  No joke, we got a foot of the white stuff over night.

 Here is a picture of our birdbath and you can see for yourself, there's over a foot of it !!

The view looking towards the Wasatch Mountains as the sun was just starting to break.  There's still some more activity to the East.

Then 15 minutes later when the sun came over the mountains you get the full effect of what our neighborhood looks like this morning at 8:00.

 While it was lovely and serene, I don't think Dave was too happy about having to deal with it.  I bet the next house he builds WON'T be on a corner lot.  He now has 3 times the sidewalk to clear.

 Our young flowering pear trees were doing their best to stand upright under the weight of the snow.

But, Dave gave them a shake.  Our neighbor across the street his branches were almost touching the ground.

On the bright side the one who truly ENJOYED the whole event was Balsa.  It was her first real snow fall and she had a blast running and jumping.  Trying to pick up the snow and carry it around.  It was up to her belly, but she didn't care.  I would bring her in to warm up, and she was ready to go out as soon as she warmed up.  She is our little snow dog.  Good thing she's black so we can find her in the deep stuff.