I took our holiday decorations down today. Or rather I should say I dug them out of the frozen snow. Always afraid of being compared to the Griswalds, we pride ourselves in having our Christmas decorations pack away by New Year’s Day. Our indoor decorations were packed weeks ago, while our outside decorations were stuck under the forty plus inches of snow we got between December 20th and 27th.

So, today it was time to get it done. Only about 8 inches of snow remains in our front yard, but it was the two inches of frozen snow / ice which held firmly to the electical cords. Each had to literally be dug down to the grass and pried out of the snow pack. The extension cords remain buried under the snow while my neighbors can now rejoice that our lighted deer will no longer meet them morning, noon and night.