First Snowfall!

I don't want to sound like I'm justifying anything about moving back East from the balmy West Coast, but dang, everything really does look beautiful this morning with the first snowfall of the season! The light dusting of snow on the bare branches of the trees and the still-green lawns was just Christmas-card perfect this morning as I drove on by. It even made me less mad that I had to take my car into the shop AGAIN this morning.

The snow won't last for long though. Already it's sunny and brighter out. On Friday it was about 70 degrees; yep, I'm definitely back in New England where the saying is "if you don't like the weather, just wait a minute" since it changes at the drop of a hat :)

W. took some pics of the back yard area this morning. I'll post one later when I get my hands on it. We're going to get our Christmas tree sometimes this week too (the weekend got too busy) and I picked up a bunch of ornaments on loan from my family last night. I helped them decorate their tree then took what was left over. My cheap self is going to buy our own ornaments after Christmas when they're 50-70% off :P Hey, when you just bought a house (and now, it looks like, maybe I do need to buy the new car after all) every little bit you can save counts! OK, maybe that part was a little bit of justification for my spendthrift habits....