And now, more snow

After our warm weather teaser, we have settled into the real Wisconsin winter with frigid temperatures and snow falling, seemly, every day.  We woke up this morning to several inches on the ground, more coming down, and more predicted for several days this week.  This is on top of the several inches we got Friday night.  Fortunately, it was finally enough to warrant breaking out the snowblower, which as any faithful reader of this blog knows is one of my favorite things to do in the winter.  Just love launching snow 4-6 feet.  Also, with all the snow and a bit of scheduling luck we might get some cross country skiing in this week.

We had a quiet weekend as between the cold temperatures (it didn't get out of the teens on Friday, Saturday or Sunday) and the snow on the streets and sidewalks it has limited our outdoor pursuits.  Friday night we warmed up some Papa Del's pizza and caught up on some of our taped (or should I say, DVR'd) shows.  Jo made an apple cake for dessert that was one of her favorites growing up.  Quite tasty especially with a little whip cream on top and hot out of the oven.  Saturday the sidewalks were too treacherous to attempt running (that and a windchill below zero) so we settled for some yoga followed by a little lifting at the gym.  Then it was off to a local diner for lunch followed by shopping for some volleyball gear.  The afternoon was usefully spent with me playing my new computer game while Jo caught up on some reading. 

Sunday was, again, just too cold to make running enjoyable so we settled for working out in the basement.  The rest of the day flew by with various small chores we needed to work on together and before you knew it, it was time to watch the Superbowl.  We both decided to cheer on the 49'ers - for no particular reason than we like San Francisco slightly better than Baltimore - although given our recent success in cheering on sporting teams (Illinois basketball, Wisconsin at the Rose Bowl) San Francisco fans might have preferred us to root for the other team.  We were both happy that it was an exciting game although the 30 minutes of CBS sports analysts trying to figure out what to talk about during the power outage wasn't exactly a highlight although it did provide us some entertaining moments as they struggled to fill the air time.

I decided posting pictures of our snow might get a bit old, although I reserve the right to do it later this season, so I'm opting for pictures of our deck renovation.  We are converting our screened in porch into a 3-season porch.  So far, we are at the open air concept which has been fun since with all the snow we now have something else we need to shovel.